But it does ... because EU based drivers may do several trips within the UK before picking up their return load ... criss-crossing the country, picking up loads from dockside distribution centres and delivering to supermarket distribution centres networked across the country before they pick up their return load from somewhere else and drive back cross country to Harwich and the continent.
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I don't know which news programmes you watch Nooj but I have seen several reporting that UK haulage firms have lost UK staff to Covid and age. Not being replaced by younger British drivers because they don't want the life so some companies, including supermarkets, are increasing pay, offering better conditions and even taking on apprentices to train in a bid to entice more applicants. The DVLC waiting lists don't help either.
The 14000 missing EU driver numbers are well below the 60000 needed to get Britain moving again. Road networks and services need a total re-think as do rail haulage networks and even canals.
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Apparently quite a lot of haulage has been outsourced to European companies for quite a long time (they charged less) so a driver would bring a load in from Europe, do a couple of trips within the UK, then take a load back to Europe. The problems of both Brexit and Covid causing delays at the borders has meant many companies in Europe have withdrawn from work in the UK, meaning there's a shortage of transport internationally but also within the country.
But as always, there are other factors:
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You talk sense! On top of what you said it should be pointed out that the organisation behind these stories which have increased since January, is an employers body. If the nation was flooded with cheap labour in the haulage industry they keep the lower wages. It's an underpaid job. Time wages increased not bring in cheap labour.
It’s not to do with the wages … a lot of it is to do with the price of fuel … EU lorries can fill their tanks with lower cost fuel before getting in the ferry to the UK, then do several drops and pickups before going back to the continent … all on cheaper fuel. That’s why a lot of haulage was outsourced. I’m from Suffolk and have family in the Harwich area … it’s common knowledge that’s how it works. A lot of UK drivers were based in the EU too because it was to their advantage. Can’t do it any more.
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Afghanistan - wasn't the withdrawal planned way in advance? Wasn't this part of Trump's foreign policy? Why then wasn't it treated like the Titanic - women and children first? Surely you don't leave the vulnerable in place and pull out the military do you? Don't you do that the opposite way round? - the military leave last. And as for the coalition saying they didn't expect the Afghan army to collapse so quickly, isn't the like leaving the women and children on the Titanic, hoping that it would stay afloat til rescue ships came, and then saying '..we didn't think it would sink that quickly...'?
If you were concerned about the people you were leaving behind, you would plan to withdraw at a time when it is difficult for armies to move around (i.e. winter in Afghanistan) and not at a time to suit an internal, notional deadline (the anniversary of 9/11). Then you would have a strategy to slowly withdraw, taking the most vulnerable people with you and moving them out as you go, making sure there was time to do the necessary paperwork as you moved back. As opposed to just walking away with the lowest risk to those most able to defend themselves (trained, armed soldiers). It's all about the US, not Afghanistan
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I don't see how America's actions (that they published well in advance) affects how the UK handled the civilians connected to it and that it was responsible for. If Biden had said three weeks back '...we're pulling out at the end of August...' then maybe - as the coalition was dependent on the US. But this was planned and signed a year plus in advance wasn't it? - and the UK was aware?
What really annoyed me was watching a clip of American news where the presenter called it "an unprecedented evacuation" and " nothing like this has been done before". Do they not have to do history in school, or does Vietnam fall in the gap between History and Current Affairs?
What really annoyed me was watching a clip of American news where the presenter called it "an unprecedented evacuation" and " nothing like this has been done before". Do they not have to do history in school, or does Vietnam fall in the gap between History and Current Affairs?
Sshhhh, Don't mention Vietnam to American. They lost remember?
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The 14000 missing EU driver numbers are well below the 60000 needed to get Britain moving again. Road networks and services need a total re-think as do rail haulage networks and even canals.
But as always, there are other factors:
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It's all about the US, not Afghanistan
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”