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On 14/01/2021 at 23:05, Meenzer said:

 

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Also this. :lol: 

 

 

 

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My next door neighbour is a lorry driver who brings over fresh fish from France. He was saying that there's a time threshold on the delivery for the fish to still count as fresh that's under 24 hours from the time of catching it. Apparently it's now taking 2 days to process things through customs which is compromising this standard. He also told me that what was once a 3 day round trip is now a 5 day one - I don't know which way he voted or if he did at all, but he thinks they'll have to change it or whole industries are going to collapse.

 

I mean he's just a lorry driver in the end, but I'm assuming he's pretty familiar with the product he and his colleagues are shipping, and what the requirements are.

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20 minutes ago, Rayvin said:

My next door neighbour is a lorry driver who brings over fresh fish from France. He was saying that there's a time threshold on the delivery for the fish to still count as fresh that's under 24 hours from the time of catching it. Apparently it's now taking 2 days to process things through customs which is compromising this standard. He also told me that what was once a 3 day round trip is now a 5 day one - I don't know which way he voted or if he did at all, but he thinks they'll have to change it or whole industries are going to collapse.

 

I mean he's just a lorry driver in the end, but I'm assuming he's pretty familiar with the product he and his colleagues are shipping, and what the requirements are.

Lot's of drivers are paid by the "Km travelled" sitting not moving for 2 extra days is not an incentive ;)

The salaried one's companies will just pass on those extra costs.

Saw something yesterday where drivers were complaining that their allowed hours driving expired whilst waiting for the check's to be done and they had no-where to go, their tachographs will log they were driving illegally if they move on.

Utter carnage.

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1 minute ago, Toonpack said:

Lot's of drivers are paid by the "Km travelled" sitting not moving for 2 extra days is not an incentive ;)

The salaried one's companies will just pass on those extra costs.

Saw something yesterday where drivers were complaining that their allowed hours driving expired whilst waiting for the check's to be done and they had no-where to go, their tachographs will log they were driving illegally if they move on.

Utter carnage.

 

Conversely I have heard many European hauliers (which make up 85% of personnel involved with UK EU freight movement) are paid per job. If they are stuck for days in a covid infested Kent lorry park they won't get paid. Many will just sack it off. What then? 

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2 minutes ago, Renton said:

 

Conversely I have heard many European hauliers (which make up 85% of personnel involved with UK EU freight movement) are paid per job. If they are stuck for days in a covid infested Kent lorry park they won't get paid. Many will just sack it off. What then? 

Then we eat turnips and beetroot

(per job rate will likely be calculated on distance to travel I reckon).

3 day jobs taking 5 near on 40% reduction in their earning potential.

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3 minutes ago, NJS said:

I read the Falklands are fucked as well - they sell 60% of their fish to the EU and now face tariffs. 

 

Maybe they can do what Gibraltar has done and join Schenghen! 🤪

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17 minutes ago, ewerk said:

No cherry picking!

Plus there would still have to be some checks and paperwork to ensure that what is in the lorry is what is stated.

 

Aye, these are not teething issues, these are intractable issues caused by leaving the single market which we will have to live with forever. It will make our exports unattractive, our imports expensive, and as for services...

 

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Without watching more than about 10 seconds of that video, surely that infers leaving the EU had made illegal immigration worse. As for the patter about the fishing industry, they’re fucked. In 5 years time they’ll still be fucked 

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10 minutes ago, Tom said:

I have never met a person in my entire life that makes their living fishing. 

I have :) - My ex neighbour (15 years ago) was a salmon fisherman (out of Blyth) one small coble type boat all sold locally

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8 minutes ago, Isegrim said:

 

 

So, we have a German poster positively radiating schadenfreude on us, quoting a  tweet from a polish wagon driver who refers to our wonderful country as, and I quote, the "United Whoredom".

 

This, gentlemen, is why we we were right to leave this vile corrupt organisation. Don't they remember who won the war? 

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