On 7 May, 16:16, "steve robinson"
wrote:
wrote:
On 7 May, 14:47, "steve robinson"
wrote:
Conor wrote:
In article , Adrian
says...
"steve robinson" gurgled
happily, sounding much like they were saying:

They are competing against foreign owned trucks who fill up
outside the UK where desiel is cheaper

So how come UK truckers can't take their trucks on a
boozecruise, if it makes so much difference?

8MPG and an overnight ferry or a 320 mile trip to Dover.

Funny how UK truck drivers vary between hideously underpaid and
raking it in, depending on the point trying to be made...

Depends on your definition of a good wage. Currently I'm on
£9.50/hr.

I can get a pole that will do it for £2.00 *thats were the problem
lies and he will sleep in his cab and not want any overnight
allowance

Many eastern eruopean drivers will happliy work for 10p per mile
some will take as little as 5 p per mile ,

I think this is it. *As in so many other industries people from
eastern europe are willing to work harder for less money than UK
nationals. *In the end this will make the UK more efficent and able to
compete on a global level. *It will make life harder for some people
in the short term, but in the long term it will mean that the uk is a
player in the global ecconomy rather that some protectionist backwater
trying and failing to get rich washing each others clothes.

Utter rubbish , its nothing about working harder , they can afford to
take less because thier cost of living is less ,

In this case you may be right, and if it is the case that they work
harder it is because the enforcement of driving hours is more lax.
The sleeping in the cab thing you mentioned could be interpreted as
working harder. I have heard the argument from agricultural and horse
training enplyers that the eastern europeans tend to worrk harder.

and because of the
stupidity of the EU in supporting thier economies through leveys on the
uk , germany france etc its skewing the market place , Take spain as an
example thier economy has recieved billions in *subsidies since the
jioned the eu , so has southern ireland , they could both survive
without these subsidies however it would mean large tax rizes and
better fiscal and economic management something that is politically a
non starter , many large companies are now relocating because of the
tax advantages in these countries , because of the sudsidies we are
paying .fiscal stupidity

Very few of the eu countries could stand on thier own two feet without
these cash injections ,

Poland has not been in the uk for long, has the tax burden dropped
there significantly? I have to suspect that it is because they live
with much lower levels of public services, and the extra cash from the
EU goies to helping there ecconomy catch up, so wages will not be
lower than here for ever.

Other industries manage to compete with Polish wages, why not haulage?

It has been a while since you mentioned fuel duty. Do you belive it
is that that is causing the problem, or these other questions?