Lorry driver shortage

I guess these guys won't have a shortage.

They'll be the ones supplying drivers to all the sh!t places that no one wants to drive for and now their chickens are home roosting and falling off the perch. So they'll chuck money at it to keep the wheels turning to keep that slashed price contract they won.

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I guess these guys won't have a shortage.

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Most of that money will be paid as a "loyalty bonus" after 2 months.

betweenthelines said:

Most of that money will be paid as a "loyalty bonus" after 2 months.

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Yeh and you've worked like a dog nursing that pig-sty truck around but you've f**ked a tyre up on the trailer and put a scratch on that 2012 Daf door...That idiot in Elcheapski Supermarket Chester rang up and reported you for being 1 minute late last Tuesday morning

So you've lost the loyalty bonus

Forget the Flips Flops doing loads into Europe from the UK at a rate to pay for the boat.

Wait until Ming Wong arrives loaded with Tat and need's a backload to anywhere.

https://www.amco-group.co.uk/road-freight-from-china-to-the-uk/

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I'd like to know the details of that.
They'll be a major hook somewhere and I'm guessing you wont know what it is until you're all signed up.

Most of these new employment contracts are zero hours, so nothing long term

JP1 said:

Most of these new employment contracts are zero hours, so nothing long term

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Nothing long term for employers either.

Sorted.

Lowland1 said:

Sorted.

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Sorry missed that. But it is funny especially Boris and his team.

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Maybe this will encourage more to become drivers....

Anyone had a begging letter from D.O.T.

I notice they aren't relaxing the driver tax aka DCPC

Renaultman said:

I notice they aren't relaxing the driver tax aka DCPC

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Might get some takers if they did.

Not yet. Looking forward to it arriving.

MontyK said:

Anyone had a begging letter from D.O.T.

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Anyone had a begging letter from D.O.T.

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Aye mine said more than that though if you turn it over on the back,
Tax free earnings, top ups to 65k a year, toilets on every junction or crossroads.
New wave of healthy eating places, free parking, drop in fuel duty, no hold ups at tipping or loading point. And all weighbridge operators that say no, will be banished to the gates of hell,
an expense account covered by the government, gardening allowance, and a paid staff member to look after the house when away.
All sounded good till the last bit about early retirement off the road, and a seat in the house of Lords, all government backed by all accounts

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Yes I had one. Predictable Gov letter impersonal and no contact details for the undersigned

I found the Baroness' email address and sent a mail

Dear Lady Vere





You wrote me a letter imploring me to consider driving trucks using my LGV Class 2 entitlement

Predictably as with all such letters they are impersonal and contain no contact details for the undersigned.

Successive Governments and the Civil Service have presided over the demise of the truck transport sector such that most who could drive a truck are no longer interested.

The Government GP contract means that a GP practice can wrack whatever fee they decide is "commercial" for a rudimentary medical every five years. For me this is £85 currently. The desktop exercise is an absolute joke compared with the thorough occupational health assessment I undertook with the Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service. The latter was free and both should be seen as a public service. I decided I was not going to be taxed by a private monopolistic medical practice to renew my licence. I still carry the entitlement

The introduction of a compulsory sit along 35 hour CPC with no core syllabus requirement or outcome every five years is a further joke. What does it bring if you don't even need to prove knowledge of current hours regulations. As I'm not a driver I've never undertaken it

I gained my CPC in Road Haulage Operations (National) in 1981 , actually as part of a college thesis preparation but drove in the early Eighties and ran my own wagon in the mid 2000's. I gained a pretty good insight in to what makes driving so unattractive. Some are corporate attitudes towards drivers and the haulage sector but a lot can be laid at Government's door.

These days tramping is very unattractive with hardly any secure, clean overnight parking places. Cartels fixing crazy motorway overnight fees and overpriced dirty food and facilities - have you compared this with French Aire de Parking facilities for example? Section 106 agreements requiring all new RDC and mega warehouse planning applications to facilitate a truck park could easily be achieved as a start

All Metropolitan truck routes are fraught with time pressures / restrictions imposed by central and local government without any intelligent acknowledgement that we all require goods moved by trucks. Furthermore I would never wish for anyone to be harmed by an LGV but there is no control or policing to stop cyclists undertaking trucks at junctions etc

The road network has been chronically underfunded for years; I'd even venture to suggest not many new roads need building just the current network brought up to standard. The crazy utilities protocol to close roads and cause massive diverts with no check as to how long the road closure is actually required rather than permitted causes massive fuel and CO2 pollution and brings nothing forward for road worker safety. De-heat the South East, mandate bypasses and other measures to increase the number of roads being dualled, drop lanes not junctions. These are not new things but folks who've never driven a truck should understand and respect

I wish you well with your quest