There was a bloke on that radio discussion today who was a fuel delivery driver. He started his shift 6 hours early so that he was sure he could get fuel. How many folk would add 6 hours onto their working day. I doubt he'll get any extra pay for that either. No wonder they're mightily p***ed off.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
What happens if, at the end of the week there’s no fuel so we can’t get home …. on the other hand if there’s no fuel the next folk won’t be able to get here, so we might as well stay here, don’t you think … ? 😉 🏖
If you only have a bit of fuel, you can stop here until it clears up ( no queues when I drove past the local station twice today )
You are lovely … thank you for that kind offer @Hostafan1 … we’ll see what the situation is nearer to Friday when we leave … but I’ll rest easy tonight knowing we have a contingency plan ((hugs))
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Someone told me today that she'd heard that the DVLA has a backlog of HGV license applications to be processed but I don't know where she got that from so it's only rumour and hearsay. I can believe it though.
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@Lyn - an aging workforce of qualified drivers plus crap pay and crappier conditions which are not attractive to men or women with children, dependants, pets they need to get home for at predictable times, even for short haul drivers. The hours restrictions mean the long haul drivers often have to sleep in their cabs in a lay-by with no loos, showers of food facilities. There are too few services and lorry parks where they can be safe and catered for.
So if the wages were higher and the transport cafes opened again, those men/women drivers would forget about their families, dependants and pets and do the job. Maybe this is a regional thing. Personally I think there’s more to it than were being told. Either that or the U.K. work ethic has completely gone. Ok so people can’t get HGV, or its too expensive, but last year people were shown on tv crying because they’d lost their jobs, you don’t need a licence to work fields or chicken farms. Sorry, but I get very curmudgeonly over the amount of people on the dole and the job vacancies that no one can fill. If the wages don’t come up to the amount of UC it gets made up to that amount. maybe I should just stop watching the news.
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@JennyJ the DVLC situation has been widely reported for months and not just HGV licenses backed up but tests for new car drivers.
@Lyn it has long been the case that British people won't pick fruit - except maybe in a sunny French vineyard for a working holiday. Hop picking used to be a thing for Londoners to get away from the smoke for a week or two but even there the conditions for housing them were very basic and no longer acceptable after the war. Given the conditions I wouldn't work in a chicken farm either. For far too long British food producers have relied on cheap eastern European labour for such work and it's also known to be a fertile ground for people traffickers. Needs a good shake up.
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As @Obelixx says I don't think many of us would try working on a chicken farm in the current state of working conditions. UC is so broken that it doesn't benefit anyone financially to do jobs that pay as little as the industry offers. It's one thing to work for no additional standard of living when you're gaining experience for a career in reasonable working conditions, but that's certainly not the case with these jobs. Why would anyone want to do them? It's not as if they're kicking back enjoying life on 'the dole'- the benefits system is now so meagre as to make very clear what the govt thinks of those that need to use it. As with most societal problems, the causes are to be found by looking up, not down.
Mind you, it was heaving down most of the night, so I'm not sure any of it would have been visible here Wonder if @Bee witched saw anything down there in the sarf.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Was tucked up by 10:30 and slept through. I've only seen them once down here .... and that was only a wee glimpse. We live in a valley so would need to walk up the hill to get a nice big sky.
Bee x
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A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
To be pedantic. There is not a fuel shortage as there are millions of gallons sat in storage facilities around the country. There is a fuel distribution problem creating a fuel availability shortage at petrol stations.
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How many folk would add 6 hours onto their working day. I doubt he'll get any extra pay for that either.
No wonder they're mightily p***ed off.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Maybe this is a regional thing.
Personally I think there’s more to it than were being told.
Either that or the U.K. work ethic has completely gone.
Ok so people can’t get HGV, or its too expensive, but last year people were shown on tv crying because they’d lost their jobs, you don’t need a licence to work fields or chicken farms.
Sorry, but I get very curmudgeonly over the amount of people on the dole and the job vacancies that no one can fill.
If the wages don’t come up to the amount of UC it gets made up to that amount.
maybe I should just stop watching the news.
@Lyn it has long been the case that British people won't pick fruit - except maybe in a sunny French vineyard for a working holiday. Hop picking used to be a thing for Londoners to get away from the smoke for a week or two but even there the conditions for housing them were very basic and no longer acceptable after the war. Given the conditions I wouldn't work in a chicken farm either. For far too long British food producers have relied on cheap eastern European labour for such work and it's also known to be a fertile ground for people traffickers. Needs a good shake up.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/met-office-solar-storm-170302956.html
Mind you, it was heaving down most of the night, so I'm not sure any of it would have been visible here
Wonder if @Bee witched saw anything down there in the sarf.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Was tucked up by 10:30 and slept through.
I've only seen them once down here .... and that was only a wee glimpse.
We live in a valley so would need to walk up the hill to get a nice big sky.
Bee x
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...