Thousands of military drivers will be attracted to deliver medicines and food due to shortage of truckers in Britain

Information of a very unexpected nature comes from the UK. It is connected with a total shortage of truck drivers, which is caused by numerous factors. One of them is the prolonged closure of British borders amid the coronavirus pandemic. Then thousands of British drivers began to experience difficulties in connection with the need to systematically pass tests for the presence (absence) of coronavirus infection. It got to the point that the total shortage of truck drivers reached an absolute anti-record for the entire history - more than 80 thousand people.

In connection with the shortage of drivers of heavy vehicles in the country, a new crisis is brewing, associated with a shortage of goods on store shelves, including essential goods.

It became known that the staff of the United Kingdom's Department of Defense had to get involved in solving this problem. It turned out that an order was being prepared to distribute to the army units on the involvement of military drivers in the delivery of goods to British stores. The order is based on a request for assistance made by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

At the first stage, the problem is planned to be solved by attracting 2 thousand truck drivers from the Royal Logistics Corps to the delivery of goods. It is also planned to attract several thousand military drivers from other formations. They will have to deliver medicines to pharmacies, vaccines to clinics, food and other essential goods to stores.

The shortage of 80000 to 100000 thousand drivers is confirmed by the British Road Transport Association. Because of this shortage, tens of large warehouses of food and medicine are already filled by only a third. The involvement of military drivers should, according to the government of the country, rectify the situation.

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[Doccor18]

Normal practice is to bring in the army to help in the hour of serious trials in the country ...

[Boris Ivanov]

we need to help small-shavens !! send our truckers .. Boshirov and Petrov)

[Doccor18]

Quote: Boris Ivanov

we need to help small-shavens !! send our truckers ..

Well, yes, ours are all vaccinated ...

[tihonmarine]

Quote: Boris Ivanov

we need to help small-shavens !! send our truckers.

And from Ukraine they are afraid to invite guest workers.

[seregatara1969]

Military drivers cannot be truckers! Truckers do not deliver goods to pharmacies and shops. For this there are short-haul drivers or locals.

[Babay Atasovich]

Due to the shortage of heavy truck drivers in the country

As I understand Lavrov from his short phrase (for you, modders). Delov something! Give visa-free travel to Uzbekistan and Tajikistan! ALL problems will disappear in an instant!

[Wahmister 1970]

Travel for three months to earn some money and send used lace panties to Zyablintsev and PiK,

[volodya2014]

You have to go, not only to earn money, but also try to stay there for permanent residence)))

[Wahmister 1970]

Nope, there is no bazhania for permanent residence
Judging by the disadvantages of fetishists on the site, there are much more

[Sergey Aleksandrovich]

Another attempt to replace drivers with autopilots ended in failure. Military drivers will become pilots for a while.

[knn54]

In Spain, already 70%. truck drivers over 50. The situation is no better in other European countries, even in Poland.
The labor shortage in the UK transport industry is growing at 50 drivers per day.
The main reasons for the lack of interest in the profession of a driver among young people are the high cost of obtaining permits and difficult working conditions.
According to The Sun, British carriers currently use approximately 60 foreign drivers.

[Murmur 55]

This is the problem of the entire supposedly civilized world, young people do not want to WORK, young people want to live for themselves, travel and so on, in extreme cases to be streamers or bloggers. Or immediately get a position in the management of a corporation. But just do not work with little hands, a hump.

[Sergey Aleksandrovich]

I thought that we have unemployment, but that's how it is!

[Flooding]

Quote: knn54

difficult working conditions.

you can’t argue
dead roads
uncomfortable workplace
unconditioned air
corrupt women with shameful diseases

[sabakina]

Eh Nikolay! And it was 1978, there were truckers ... Where did it all go?

[culinary]

Quote: knn54

According to The Sun, British carriers currently use approximately 60 foreign drivers.

I am one of them.
Now salaries have crept up. For the first class (long-range, delivery with a "tail" around the city, which is much more difficult), £ 20-25 per hour. With the lockdown, many drivers returned to their homeland. Especially a lot of Chekhov left. Poles and Romanians also left. After Brexit, it became more difficult to come to the island.
Now for the second class, up to 25 tons, salaries start at £ 15 / hour.
For a normal driver, the annual income is in the order of £ 45-50 thousand. This is not enough for the locals. This is not enough for London.
It must be borne in mind that you must have a DCPC license, a medical board and for each separate category: crane, forklift, ADR. It is not cheap.

[Ruslan Sulima]

It turns out that for these grandmas you need to ride around the clock for more than 100-150 days?

[culinary]

Quote: Ruslan Sulima

It turns out that for these grandmas you need to ride around the clock for more than 100-150 days?

A bit wrong. This is a payment for 40 hours a week. Anything over, and not exceeding the DVLA allowed limit, is paid at a rate of 1,5.
Bank holidays and holidays double rate. Easter and Christmas triple.
Something like this.

[Ruslan Sulima]

Well, yes, I wanted to ask about the limit.

[Gunther]

Quote: kulinar

... you must have a license
DCPC, medical board and for each individual
Category: crane, loader, ADR. It is not cheap.

and also road tax, insurance, rent - you have to pack up in ALDI or LIDL.
Somehow it didn't work out for tsifrobes with unmanned delivery, I remembered the first pancake of the Russian Post, it's good at least they didn't kill anyone with their flying demon))).
The ambush of small-scaled girls is that "fresh blood" from the Maghreb, etc. and was not going to work for the colonialists, it is more profitable for them to sit on the Yukei variety of the welfer.
all the hope is for whites from Eastern Europe - Poles, Baldeans, Czechs and other toilet bowl cleaners, they at least know how to work.
PS
I looked at how many minuses they threw on opinions - it even became funny, yes, I haven’t minus yet, there’s nothing))))

[culinary]

Quote: Gunter

Quote: kulinar

... you must have a license
DCPC, medical board and for each individual
Category: crane, loader, ADR. It is not cheap.

and also road tax, insurance, rent - you have to pack up in ALDI or LIDL.
Somehow it didn't work out for tsifrobes with unmanned delivery, I remembered the first pancake of the Russian Post, it's good at least they didn't kill anyone with their flying demon))).
The ambush of small-scaled girls is that "fresh blood" from the Maghreb, etc. and was not going to work for the colonialists, it is more profitable for them to sit on the Yukei variety of the welfer.
all the hope is for whites from Eastern Europe - Poles, Baldeans, Czechs and other toilet bowl cleaners, they at least know how to work.
PS
I looked at how many minuses they threw on opinions - it even became funny, yes, I haven’t minus yet, there’s nothing))))

Taxes and insurance are the head of the firm.
Yes, we buy in ALDIK, why be ashamed. This is an analogue of the Russian Pyaterochka.

[grandfather_Kostya]

It remains for GREAT Britain to remember the "good old days" and to import slaves from afar, but with a driver's license.

[Murmur 55]

Themselves have created a problem (I'm talking about a pandemic) themselves "heroically" are struggling with it.

[Flooding]

Quote: Murmur 55

Themselves have created a problem (I'm talking about a pandemic) themselves "heroically" are struggling with it.

on the other hand, nature has created humanity, destroying it, and is now trying to drive it back to paradise.

[Murmur 55]

I heard (correct if I'm wrong) that the British have problems with recruiting into the army, they say the youth are not eager to defend their country and the government has found a way to create another regiment of Gurkha. So we have such a quagmire slowly beginning.

[out of habit]

Shortage of 100000 truckers for 60+ million population? 100000 trucks of food and medicine? Either they eat a lot, or they get very sick.

[Egoza]

Quote: out of habit

Either they eat a lot, or they get very sick.

It depends on what to eat! They also got used to some products that can only be delivered from France within XNUMX hours (then disappear) to consume every morning. And then a bummer, there is no one to deliver. Well, they get sick, of course.

[Terenin]

Quote: out of habit

100000 trucks of food and medicine? Either they eat a lot,

Not otherwise, the fugitive Russian oligarchs and their families provoked the famine.

[knn54]

Andrey's comment inspired an anecdote:
- Mom, when I told my girlfriend how much I get, she laughed and said that she spends more on toilet paper.
- Calm down, sonny. - We don't need such sleep ... in the family!
PS What are we eating, gentlemen. The oysters were delivered by the "evening horse" from Paris.
PP.S Judging by the abundance of UNREASONABLE minuses, the Internet was still installed in ward 6.

[voyaka uh]

Britain, by the way, has left the EU and can accept immigrants and guest workers on its own terms.
So the drivers can earn extra money.
Salaries in Britain are very decent.

[stalkerwalker]

One of the main reasons for Brexit was just the question of immigrants and guest workers. And the key figure mentioned in the English press was the Polish plumber.
It can be concluded that no one is particularly expected there, unless, of course, you have a driver's license with the right to work on a tractor as a truck driver.
But that's not all - we recall the procedure for obtaining a car license in the film "Taxi" (first issue). The situation is roughly similar ...

[culinary]

Quote: voyaka uh

Britain, by the way, has left the EU and can accept immigrants and guest workers on its own terms.
So the drivers can earn extra money.
Salaries in Britain are very decent.

I could, but the conditions of arrival have become much more complicated.
For agricultural work, it even organizes charters with temporary accommodation. But you can't just bring the drivers. Different traffic organization, right-hand drive! Other rules. Believe me, it is very different from European ones. They even drove a ride with horses. And this is true, since you can meet with riders in the center of London.

[Murmur 55]

but the living costs are not small.

[aszzz888]

voyaka uh (Alexey)
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Britain, by the way, has left the EU and can accept immigrants and guest workers on its own terms.
So the drivers can earn extra money.
Salaries in Britain are very decent.

did you get there too?

[Avior]

Truckers are a very specific profession.
There are simply not enough people willing to work.
In Europe, there are now many truckers from Belarus and Ukraine, working on a rotational basis.

[Sergey Aleksandrovich]

Joke.
The trucker goes to bed next to his wife, hugs her. The wife asks:
- Is that you, dear?
- Yes I.
- How is the weather?
- Blizzard, blizzard ... brrrrrr!
- And mine went on a flight.

[stalkerwalker]

I looked through the feed of comments, including my own - all around solid minuses ...
Wonderful are your works, Lord!
Not otherwise, the inhabitants of the Tin Islands come off. And they said "Order, order ..."

[sabakina]

From the Order, a couple of people remained, including me. Ask Banshee, he knows who is minus.

[stalkerwalker]

Quote: sabakina

From the Order, a couple of people remained, including me. Ask Banshee, he knows who's minus

Do I need it?
Moreover, judging by the total score, this was done by some kind of syav ...
"The sailor will not offend the child ..."

[sabakina]

I agree. All the more so as my plus has been nullified for you, you bastards!

[stalkerwalker]

Let’s choke!

But a couple more have already arrived for me ...

[sabakina]

How is it in math? Two negatives make an affirmative? Break through!

[stalkerwalker]

Yes, we have already broken through!

[Terenin]

Quote: sabakina

Two negatives make an affirmative?

Glory, here the advantages are not given by arithmetic ...

[Terenin]

Quote: stalkerwalker

Do I need it?
Moreover, judging by the total score, this was done by some kind of syav ...

Ilyich, yes fuck from the tank, shrapnel Look what a powerful avatar

[stalkerwalker]

Bottom-zya ...
The server will crash ...

[Terenin]

Quote: stalkerwalker

I looked through the feed of comments, including my own - all around solid minuses ...

With language removed.

[culinary]

Quote: stalkerwalker

I looked through the feed of comments, including my own - all around solid minuses ...
Wonderful are your works, Lord!
Not otherwise, the inhabitants of the Tin Islands come off. And they said "Order, order ..."

Also drew attention.
And stupid minus without explanation. Nonentities that cannot object do not enter into discussion. Meanness is their essence.

[stalkerwalker]

Quote: kulinar

Nothing that cannot object does not enter into discussion. Meanness is their essence

Oh!
It is you, my friend, it seems that you have not yet fallen under the "skating rink of like-minded people." This is when you hang up to a total of eight dozen minuses on a couple of your comments. Without any disputes there, from which, supposedly, "truth" is born!

[Terenin]

Quote: kulinar

Quote: stalkerwalker

I looked through the feed of comments, including my own - all around solid minuses ...
Wonderful are your works, Lord!
Not otherwise, the inhabitants of the Tin Islands come off. And they said "Order, order ..."

Also drew attention.
And stupid minus without explanation. Nonentities that cannot object do not enter into discussion. Meanness is their essence.

Yeah judging here, like at the Tokyo Olympic Games in rhythmic gymnastics
And no one canceled the Rodchenkovs

[Terenin]

Quote: stalkerwalker

Not otherwise, the inhabitants of the Tin Islands come off.

They are the consequences of hunger

[Sergey Aleksandrovich]

"The Englishwoman crap!"

[tralflot1832]

Does anyone from Forumum have experience driving in left-hand traffic, is it easy for the brain to rebuild?

[stalkerwalker]

It won't work right away. Here you cross the road - you twist your head out of habit "from left to right". And they, the infections, are going on the right!
And in a car on mechanics, people first fumble with their hand in the pocket of the door in search of the gearshift lever.

[Murmur 55]

comrade also complained that there were problems with rebuilding.

[OgnennyiKotik]

Quote: tralflot1832

Does anyone from Forumum have experience driving in left-hand traffic, is it easy for the brain to rebuild?

On the first day it was hard, on the second it was normal, on the third it was as if I had been driving on the left-hand side all my life. But here everything is individual. It was especially hard for me at roundabouts. Then again it was necessary to get used to the right-hand traffic, but it's faster.

[culinary]

Quote: tralflot1832

Does anyone from Forumum have experience driving in left-hand traffic, is it easy for the brain to rebuild?

I have. You get used to it quickly. It is now more difficult for me to rent a car in Europe.

[Ros 56]

What, in such a developed country and there are no auto-drones and drones? Well, you think, they can knock themselves with a heel on the chest, we are the best, but here is such a bummer. And what is there of this small Britain in terms of area, cherry pits on the map, they should not fuss. Especially in big politics.

[rotfuks]

These are not the consequences of the coronavirus, but of Brexit. Logistics chains have collapsed. Previously, a driver from Poland carried apples or potatoes to England, and on the way back he was loaded with English goods for delivery to Germany or Poland. Now, after Britain left the EU, this whole scheme has collapsed.

[abrakadabre]

Then thousands of British drivers began to experience difficulties in connection with the need to systematically pass tests for the presence (absence) of coronavirus infection.

Do military drivers face such a problem a priori? Cyborgs, you know.
And how, with a shortage of about 100 thousand civilian drivers, will several thousand military drivers solve the problem? Does the military have a performance of 1 to 20 chtol?

[Sergey Aleksandrovich]

Not every truck driver is a truck driver, however every truck driver is a truck driver.

[Terenin]

Quote: Sergey Alexandrovich

Not every truck driver is a truck driver, however every truck driver is a truck driver.

To dig even deeper, the jargonism "truck driver" comes from the name of long-range artillery - guns that hit long distances

[culinary]

Quote: Sergey Alexandrovich

Not every truck driver is a truck driver, however every truck driver is a truck driver.

Let me disagree.
Himself skated in this skin for more than one year.
The truth on the road quickly becomes clear why the person entered the track. There are enough ezdyukov there too. And the further, the more.

[Sergey Aleksandrovich]

I didn't think I would have to explain. He just altered the phraseological unit of the late socialism times "Every radio amateur is a thief, but not every thief is a radio amateur." This refers to belonging to a profession, not the quality of proficiency in it.

[culinary]

Quote: abrakadabre

Then thousands of British drivers began to experience difficulties in connection with the need to systematically pass tests for the presence (absence) of coronavirus infection.

Do military drivers face such a problem a priori? Cyborgs, you know.
And how, with a shortage of about 100 thousand civilian drivers, will several thousand military drivers solve the problem? Does the military have a performance of 1 to 20 chtol?

They, unlike civilians, are not required to comply with labor and rest regulations and do not use tacho cards. They are practically out of control. As well as special services (ambulance, firefighters, electricians and water supply), utilities and telecommunications.
At most, use the "Driver's Log Book".

[abrakadabre]

They, unlike civilians, are not required to comply with labor and rest regulations and do not use tachocard. They are practically out of control.

And therefore they will be able to handle the required volume of cargo transportation? Do they have a lot of trucks on the army's balance sheet? Not voracious off-road trucks of low and medium carrying capacity, but normal capacity of trucks with low fuel consumption per ton-kilometer.

[Vladimir Vladimirovich Vorontsov]

***
It was in the USSR: the reserve chauffeurs were regularly called up to the "partisans" for "tselena" ...
***

[Maz]

Quote: kulinar

Quote: Ruslan Sulima

It turns out that for these grandmas you need to ride around the clock for more than 100-150 days?

A bit wrong. This is a payment for 40 hours a week. Anything over, and not exceeding the DVLA allowed limit, is paid at a rate of 1,5.
Bank holidays and holidays double rate. Easter and Christmas triple.
Something like this.

how many working days?
А

[culinary]

Quote: Maz

Quote: kulinar

Quote: Ruslan Sulima

It turns out that for these grandmas you need to ride around the clock for more than 100-150 days?

A bit wrong. This is a payment for 40 hours a week. Anything over, and not exceeding the DVLA allowed limit, is paid at a rate of 1,5.
Bank holidays and holidays double rate. Easter and Christmas triple.
Something like this.

how many working days?
А

Five a week.
If you wish, you can work twice a month and six.
But the total number of driving hours should not exceed 90 hours in two weeks.

[uav80]

He drove from the autobath to be put on trucks, but this will be a complete collapse on the roads ...