I've noticed that many vegan substitute foods are highly processed with often a very long list of ingredients. @NorthernJoe assume girl was a typo. Did you mean petrol?
I'm curmudgeonly about the constant ads to buy McAfee anti-virus which pause whatever I'm doing on the laptop. It was pre-installed but I've never liked it so installed free Avast instead on the advice of a professional web designer. Anybody know how difficult it would be to uninstall McAfee to get rid of the ads please? I've got Adblock on here as well, but it doesn't stop McAfee. I've just read his obituary, what a nasty crazy bloke, makes me even more determined to get rid of.
It could be that vegetable-based products are formed to look like sausages, bacon etc not to appease the vegans but to ease meat eaters into a more vegetarian diet, allowing them the satisfaction of eating things that resemble meat while reducing their meat consumption.
I've noticed that many vegan substitute foods are highly processed with often a very long list of ingredients. @NorthernJoe assume girl was a typo. Did you mean petrol?
Fuel became girl for some reason. A strange autocorrect mistake.
I used fuel but it's diesel of course. When Eastern firms were competing strongly even in France diesel was cheap enough to make a big difference. Now less so but there's not as many well equipped UK firms around as back in the day. My old company once held shares in one but that company did good business in furniture deliveries from factories in a certain European country into the UK. We used them to get most of the way back as a return load. Then our company bought into it to get a degree of control and preferential treatment. Eventually they sold their share but by then we were important to the haulage firm. I rarely see their vehicles now. They used to send out two or three trucks a day plus a container or two a week. In the end not as many trucks and customers also started to control their own logistics and more exw pricing came in.
For decade or more trucks we load are 80% or more with a Polish, Czech or Romanian number plate. A lot are single operator trucks even small box trucks booked through these larger haulage firms which act as clearing houses for when they can't support a load. The smaller box vans are usually driven by the owner who spends a lot of the year permanently on the road living out of the cab top sleeping area. You'll see them meeting up with mates in a quiet motorway services carpark. Not using the services for food just toilet and cleaning facilities. Not a nice live IMHO but they're doing it cheaper than UK are.
Right now trucks are still getting held up. Once held up even a short time it can mean missing the next job which means there's a delay elsewhere and the customs documentation needs redoing which causes more delays. Often now trucks are being pulled into service stations to get the paperwork checked before reaching the port. It's better to have them stuck at service stations in Lancashire than sat at Felixstowe waiting for the new paperwork.
It all adds up to fewer available trucks in the system.
I haven't had the courage yet to try @Lyn, so thanks for that download. I have successfully uninstalled other programmes so I'm not sure why I'm a bit nervous about this one!
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@NorthernJoe assume girl was a typo. Did you mean petrol?
Anybody know how difficult it would be to uninstall McAfee to get rid of the ads please?
I've got Adblock on here as well, but it doesn't stop McAfee.
I've just read his obituary, what a nasty crazy bloke, makes me even more determined to get rid of.
I used fuel but it's diesel of course. When Eastern firms were competing strongly even in France diesel was cheap enough to make a big difference. Now less so but there's not as many well equipped UK firms around as back in the day. My old company once held shares in one but that company did good business in furniture deliveries from factories in a certain European country into the UK. We used them to get most of the way back as a return load. Then our company bought into it to get a degree of control and preferential treatment. Eventually they sold their share but by then we were important to the haulage firm. I rarely see their vehicles now. They used to send out two or three trucks a day plus a container or two a week. In the end not as many trucks and customers also started to control their own logistics and more exw pricing came in.
For decade or more trucks we load are 80% or more with a Polish, Czech or Romanian number plate. A lot are single operator trucks even small box trucks booked through these larger haulage firms which act as clearing houses for when they can't support a load. The smaller box vans are usually driven by the owner who spends a lot of the year permanently on the road living out of the cab top sleeping area. You'll see them meeting up with mates in a quiet motorway services carpark. Not using the services for food just toilet and cleaning facilities. Not a nice live IMHO but they're doing it cheaper than UK are.
Right now trucks are still getting held up. Once held up even a short time it can mean missing the next job which means there's a delay elsewhere and the customs documentation needs redoing which causes more delays. Often now trucks are being pulled into service stations to get the paperwork checked before reaching the port. It's better to have them stuck at service stations in Lancashire than sat at Felixstowe waiting for the new paperwork.
It all adds up to fewer available trucks in the system.