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"My company needs to send 27 pallets to France they've been sitting in the warehouse for 3 weeks now, due to be delivered 2 weeks ago 3 weeks on the phone trying to find transport only to keep on hearing...
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that no one has any lorries available maybe Mr Redwood would be willing to explain how is that possible if everything is running smoothly in his opinion? brutal truth British international haulage was heavily dependant on EU drivers -
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probably like 90% of lorries we were sending out of the country were coming in with Polish, Lithuanian, Romanian or Bulgarian number plates. And those drivers simply do not want to hear about accepting a job to the UK.
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So they're are not available to haul British exported goods either. and here we are, sitting and wondering how much longer until our French client cancels a contract because we are unable to fulfill it.
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only to then be blamed by the likes of Gove that it was our fault that we've failed to grasp the opportunity............
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