Lorry driver shortage

[smcapstick]

Excuse ME! I’m no snivelling beta male commie socialist type, thankyouverymuch

I simply want to be around to relieve the proletariat of some of their hard-redistributed money!

When I reread that, I pictured this chap:

 

[Lowland1]

Sorry didn’t recognize you without your green tights Mr Hood.

 

[Widgetone]

A few years ago I said out loud at work how ridiculous it was that a CEO of a FTSE size company was paid so much more ( I forget the multiple, but it was huge ) than the shop floor ppl actually making the widgets, I was told by my joy of a MD to go get a job as a CEO.
I'm still looking....

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Excuse ME! I’m no snivelling beta male commie socialist type, thankyouverymuch

I simply want to be around to relieve the proletariat of some of their hard-redistributed money!

me neither, but I do think the uber rich are too rich and we will all eventually head for a big blow up unless it is evened out a bit.

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

I remember reading a HSE advisory note on welfare facilities provision on farms, I think the gist of it was, if the farm employees fewer than 5 employees (I think), the toilet, wash basin could be in the farm house (provided there was access to this toilet from outside i.e. not having to traverse the "family" areas of the house), so this being the case I think most farms would have that facility.

I think there is a difference between a van driver dropping off a parcel and a lorry expecting to be loaded or unloaded.

You not from Northern England or Southern Scotland I take it

 

[Ffermer Bach]

You not from Northern England or Southern Scotland I take it

why? does that make a difference?

 

[Top Tip.]

Part of the trouble is how long (physically) the various supply chains have become.

If there were more slaughter houses, for example, there'd be less need to move cattle a hundred miles to slaughter, then move the meat a similar distance to the shops.

I know of a factory that makes pies, sarnies etc. It is literally next door to a Tesco, but everything has to go 3 hours up the motorway to the Tesco RDC, before it makes the return journey to the store.

Similar store with dairy products-Cornish milk trunked to Severnside, bottled then sent back down the M5.

Think local!

Carrots from north of Inverness,shipped to Lincolnshire for packing then shipped back to Inverness to be sold, the curtainsider with the packed carrots heading north passing the bulker heading south all in the name off efficiency. Mad!!

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

why? does that make a difference?

Lots of little family farms, and no toilets for delivery drivers

 

[Courier]

You'd think though somebody with a bit of brain power would realise a processing factory in the heart of the uk could cut down so much transport cost. Even if its cheaper to process in the netherlands, it won't be for long as the cost of everything is catching up in every single first world country very quickly.

The economies of scale through having one massive factory far outweigh the costs of extra miles on the haulage. The time spent loading and unloading still stays fixed wherever the collection and delivery points are....

Haulage is far too cheap...Tin Hat..

 

[smcapstick]

me neither, but I do think the uber rich are too rich and we will all eventually head for a big blow up unless it is evened out a bit.

How rich is too rich?

If you liquidated all of Richard Branson’s assets, real and ‘on paper’, to the value of his entire net worth and evenly distributed it across everyone in the UK, we’d get £55 each. What would that achieve?

Shall we zap all the billionaires? That would mean everyone could have a weekend at Centre Parcs with the kids. What good is that?
Shall we do millionaires, too? There’s a lot of those in here…

I am of the opinion that concerning yourself with the financial affairs of others is extremely vulgar.

 

[unlacedgecko]

Lots of little family farms, and no toilets for delivery drivers

I was at a delivery a few months ago where the manager was going to refuse me access to the toilet "that's for warehouse staff only".

Yeah no bother boss I'll just sh!t in the yard.

He saw me begin undoing my fly and suddenly I could use the toilet.

 

[tullah]

How rich is too rich?

If you liquidated all of Richard Branson’s assets, real and ‘on paper’, to the value of his entire net worth and evenly distributed it across everyone in the UK, we’d get £55 each. What would that achieve?

Shall we zap all the billionaires? That would mean everyone could have a weekend at Centre Parcs with the kids. What good is that?
Shall we do millionaires, too? There’s a lot of those in here…

I am of the opinion that concerning yourself with the financial affairs of others is extremely vulgar.

Yes. It's a free world out there.

 

[Turnip]

There's quite a lot on here who seem to think we should have a cultural revolution or a year zero and get rid of all the intellectuals me I couldn't imagine anything worse than being a bricklayer or electrician or a lorry driver for a lifetime and it seems a lot of the population think the same. Me I wish i'd had the courage to do a Divinity/Theology degree.

OH packed up her job at start of 2020 and finished her catechism course and now enrolled in theology at St Marys. If you are interested do it as there are loads of part time ways of getting your degree.

 

[betweenthelines]

The shortage of lorry drivers is getting very serious.

Apparently there's a warehouse in the Midlands packed to the rafters with Yorkie bars they can't sell!

 

[Ffermer Bach]

How rich is too rich?

If you liquidated all of Richard Branson’s assets, real and ‘on paper’, to the value of his entire net worth and evenly distributed it across everyone in the UK, we’d get £55 each. What would that achieve?

Shall we zap all the billionaires? That would mean everyone could have a weekend at Centre Parcs with the kids. What good is that?
Shall we do millionaires, too? There’s a lot of those in here…

I am of the opinion that concerning yourself with the financial affairs of others is extremely vulgar.

in the Victorian times there seemed to be a bit of a culture of using wealth to better the community (Rountree, Cadbury, Carnegie etc) rather than racing to be the first billionaire to go into space (or to try to patent the building blocks of life and develop fake meat!), so there was more charitable giving anyway.

 

[JeepJeep]

Race to the bottom for too long... Many waffling on the TV about no drivers have had Rapid Expansion slashing rates and now there are no bumskis on the seatskis and no other silly f**ker will do it within the slashed price costs.

And now there's serious head-scratching going on and parked vehicles.

The Job will always be f**ked if a Haulier will run at a slight loss to get from A-B for a customer to make good money going from B-C

 

[uztrac]

Just seen an ad for an HGV driver here in Norfolk £ 57,000 per annum.

 

[Boohoo]

Carrots from north of Inverness,shipped to Lincolnshire for packing then shipped back to Inverness to be sold, the curtainsider with the packed carrots heading north passing the bulker heading south all in the name off efficiency. Mad!!

Or ice cream made in Northern Ireland, shipped to Scotland for short term storage and picking, then returned to Northern Ireland for distribution to stores. As far as I know the brand in question isn't sold in Scotland or any part of GB for that matter so every tub, lolly etc makes 2, completely unnecessary trips across the Irish Sea.

 

[unlacedgecko]

Just seen an ad for an HGV driver here in Norfolk £ 57,000 per annum.

Drill into the detail of that. Is that basic? Or the maximum possible based on always billing 60hrs and having 5 nights out a week?

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

I heard today, that a milk trunking firm are offering £50 an hour for night trunking driver's, they are that short staffed,