EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

It's not, if you look at the figures, let me find them.

How much are truck drivers paid?

https://www.ft.com/content/5f832d86-827e-4596-999d-e0618364dbe3 says median hourly pay is £11.80/hour

Unless you're a Dutch truck driver, subject to the Neo-Liberal governance of the EU, where it's a lot more.

Touche! Would the lack of Eastern European truck drivers in NL be a symptom of racism or the misapplication of EU regs re freedom of movement?

How do we know that there aren't Eastern Europeans driving trucks in NL? It would be a canny move, as they'd get paid a lot more than, for example, here.

This is interesting (from 2014) about Dutch unions and EE labour (in construction). A more measured view than my previous comment.

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.986.6981&rep=rep1&type=pdf

more google on dutch truckers (sorry, logistics professionals)

The rates being officially paid to Dutch logistics professionals may not tell the whole story..

A cautionary tale of globalisation and exploitation.

https://theblacksea.eu/stories/romanian-trucker-polish-wage-dutch-workplace/

The facilities all pretty much closed down during lockdown too, showers etc. at motorway services were all locked up but they were still charging the same rate for parking the trucks overnight - no wonder a load of the drivers binned it.

There was a time you could earn reasonably well driving a truck in the UK
My HGV1 licence saw me through college and beyond.
But that was 35 years ago.
I didn't bother renewing it when I reached the age of 55.
Last time I drove an artic was 2006, the year I (re) started cycling.
But that was on an airfield and I wasn't being paid to drive it.

Slightly more than a senior bike mechanic, I think I know which profession I’ll stick to.

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did you learn that word today?

On second thoughts, I don't think I need to deal that that level of 'debate'. It's just another silly forum thread after all and I probably have a life

It's not that we just told them to leave, we also made the customs and border process so long that EU based shipping companies have stopped sending their drivers over because it takes days just to get out the country.

Entertainingly we have not yet started checking inbound goods on our side of the channel, that’s October the 1st.

That explains why I haven't had a single customs charge for any the shit I've bought from China.

Not really as I've had customs charges for things I've bought from Germany.

I'm not really sure how you can say "not really" to the fact I haven't been charged anything by customs for a bunch of stuff I've ordered from China

How can you be not really sure about being not really?

You not being charged for imports from China has nothing to do with Brexit.

jellybaby wasn't. They were saying 'not really' to the suggestion that the delay on implementing customs checks on inbound goods to 1st October 2021 explained why you hadn't been charged anything. At least, that's how I read it.

I feel like we've met in real life, are you always like this?

How can you be not really sure about being not really?

They don’t think it be like it is, but it do.