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stevieboy308:
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Dave the Renegade:
A lot of the hauliers in this country have serious debt,so if any drivers started taking time off to protest would just finish them off, and everyone would be losers. There is very little money in road haulage. Don’t be fooled by the new motors, most of those are leased or on finance.
That’s the reason why any strike action couldn’t be aimed at the employers.
instead of striking against employers, it should be aimed the government on behalf of the the employers.
how would that work?
Before drivers can ask ask for a wage rise, employers need a way to reduce there costs!
Biggest cost is fuel, so protest against fuel costs.
A cut in fuel costs, would I wont say will leave more money to pay drivers a better wage.
But will never happen, because drivers won’t stick together and nor will drivers and employers.
Even the unions know we are a lost cause for that reason, and only like the ones who help pay their wages!
sorry fella, but i don’t see it like that, fuel costs come down, so will the rates, firms are in competition with each other. when in a not so great economy after a boom, the industry is in oversupply, as we all know “if you bought it a truck brought it!!” well people stopped buying it, at least like they had been anyway. haulage is probably a pretty good barometer of the economy, so it should’ve come as no surprise that rates came down, firms go out of business, drivers are out of work and wages drop or stagnate.
if there was a shortage of drivers now, the wages would go up until enough people had been tempted, or tempted back into the industry that there was no longer a shortage.
when it was well publicised that plumbers were earning big money - because there was a shortage of them! i’m sure a few drivers will of been off to buy a blow lamp and sign up to the nearest fast track course. with little thought of the affect / damage they would do to the rates. chances are they’ll of thought - i can earn more, for less hours with no nights out - i’m in!!
a strike to get better wages may give a short term increase, but can it last long term? plus i don’t think it’s only truck drivers that feel undervalued, so then what, everyone’s going to start striking, so chances are every industry will still eventually be still stood on the same rung of the pay rate ladder. every man and woman with ability and eligibility to drive a truck in the uk set the wages, when enough say that the rate is enough to offer them a better package than doing anything else, the wage is set!
to get better wages - we don’t want to encourage new people to the industry!! it’s got more attractive over the years with smart looking, easier to drive, well equipped trucks, less hard graft and more bed time whilst tipping etc. it needs making it harder to get in and harder to stay in, a tougher and tested dcpc would help no end! as would a proper 48 hours! the lack of 7.5t entitlement with a car ticket over the last 16 / 17 years will be starting to make an impression, but so has the previous and future immigration issues.
supply and demand
But the problem is that nobody ever sticks together…
You sure?