Scrutable

done

“reserve tanker fleet” lol

You can have a fleet with just a few trucks if you drive them in formation with union jacks on the doors.

Sounds like a Transformers version of the Spice Girls.

They'd have the camo too.

My Spanish based buildings insurance company has decided it's too much hassle operating in Britain and won't be renewing my policy.

Just had a letter from the Ministry of Transport asking me if I want to drive lorries again, as it’s better than it used to be.

How much would it cost to make you do it again?

They don't say, and they don't offer to pay for it, but it would certainly cost me my sanity, I f.cking hate driving. Don't mind reversing round corners and three-point turns and stuff, but I don't like A roads, roundabouts or motorways. And I hate motorway services. Although I do like Country music. On balance though, no thanks, not unless I'm desperate.

Little waster wrote: Wed Sep 29, 2021 10:26 am Well this aged well:-

To head off any possible problems, David Davis' brexit dept produced all those (58?) detailed sectoral impact analyses. It's just a pity the dog ate them.

I try not to laugh at other people's misfortunes, I really do.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/ ... h-25105273

Allo V Psycho wrote: Thu Sep 30, 2021 11:01 am I try not to laugh at other people's misfortunes, I really do.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/ ... h-25105273

BAAH HA HA HA HA!


I don't

That's a f.cking let down, it says hit by a van and you get excited but it just means his car hit by a van.

stats on HGV tests undertaken in the UK are here. There are six very low months when we were clearly locked down which shows a reduction in people taking the tests during the pandemic. Presumably whoever collected the data knew this was happening well in advance of the problems we see now.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistic ... ates-drt05

Allo V Psycho wrote: Thu Sep 30, 2021 11:01 am I try not to laugh at other people's misfortunes, I really do.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/ ... h-25105273

Karma

JQH wrote: Thu Sep 30, 2021 3:09 pm

Allo V Psycho wrote: Thu Sep 30, 2021 11:01 am I try not to laugh at other people's misfortunes, I really do.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/ ... h-25105273

Karma

Vanma? Perhaps the registration number was HU BR15

Dictak issued by the Albanian ambassador to the UK. Albanians would be happy to work for free to help Britain out of the fuel crisis as a thank you to their lords and masters for letting them stay in the UK. Slavery is alive and well post Brexit.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... uel-crisis

Empty shelves in Brussels https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1 ... es-filled/

To save y'all a click:

In the meantime, Carrefour shops across Belgium are still experiencing issues following a strike at the Logistics Nivelles distribution centre at the start of the week.

While the employees decided to resume work on Thursday and transport company Supertransport also agreed to end the strike, it could take a few days before all Carrefour stores are fully resupplied.

Limited to one chain of shops, resulting from industrial action.

Something poorly-paid British workers should learn from.

And the empty shelves in Spain at the beginning of the year were 'just snow'

Indian coverage of global supply chain issues https://retail.economictimes.indiatimes ... g/86503095

purplehaze wrote: Sun Oct 03, 2021 2:40 pm Dictak issued by the Albanian ambassador to the UK. Albanians would be happy to work for free to help Britain out of the fuel crisis as a thank you to their lords and masters for letting them stay in the UK. Slavery is alive and well post Brexit.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... uel-crisis

Something something ... vote Brexit ... something something ... stop dirty foreigners coming here and undercutting wages... something something.

Little waster wrote: Sun Oct 03, 2021 9:17 pm

purplehaze wrote: Sun Oct 03, 2021 2:40 pm Dictak issued by the Albanian ambassador to the UK. Albanians would be happy to work for free to help Britain out of the fuel crisis as a thank you to their lords and masters for letting them stay in the UK. Slavery is alive and well post Brexit.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... uel-crisis

Something something ... vote Brexit ... something something ... stop dirty foreigners coming here and undercutting wages... something something.

We won't take them up on it. The collapse of the supermarket supply chains is just part of the necessary post-Brexit transition to a high-wage economy where the farmer down the street will be able to sell their milk in the village shop like they did decades ago.

Think of the food miles/emissions that will be saved.

purplehaze wrote: Sun Oct 03, 2021 2:40 pm Dictak issued by the Albanian ambassador to the UK. Albanians would be happy to work for free to help Britain out of the fuel crisis as a thank you to their lords and masters for letting them stay in the UK. Slavery is alive and well post Brexit.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... uel-crisis

That's not slavery - it's charity. We (GDP $45,000/person) now look so poor that Albanians (GDP $6,000/person) are sorry for us.

sheldrake wrote: Sun Oct 03, 2021 8:32 pm Empty shelves in Brussels https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1 ... es-filled/

The empty shelves in that report relate specifically to a distribution centre strike, not a generalised supply chain issue. As someone who shops regularly in Carrefour, it hasn't even been noticeable.

On the question of lorry drivers, that is forward planning, it seems to me.

But it interests me that you are engaging in whataboutery. That tends to be an acknowledgement, despite previous assertions, that you recognise issues with supply chains in the UK but cannot acknowledge the underlying causes. How many strikes are there in UK distribution centres?

I guess none, because otherwise, your putrid anti-worker pro-Tory media would be screeching about how angry selfish workers are destroying global Britain, wouldn't they?