“I hate driving in the UK.” What's life like for an HGV driver?

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  • Опубліковано 6 жов 2021
  • Long hours, constant delays, a lack of proper rest facilities and the new headache of extra paperwork and red tape. (Subscribe: bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe)
    Little wonder perhaps that there's a severe shortage of lorry drivers in the UK.
    The government is trying to recruit thousands of them - but it's not proving easy. So we've been out with one long haul driver to find out what the job is really like.
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  • @AbdurRahman-mb1vr
    @AbdurRahman-mb1vr 2 роки тому +757

    A friend at school was always being laughed at because his father emptied dustbins for a living. But those who laughed worshipped famous footballers. This is an example of our topsy-turvy view of 'success.' Who would we miss most if they did not work for a month, the footballer or the garbage collector?

    • @salus1231
      @salus1231 2 роки тому +11

      totally correcy

    • @ozhoneybadger
      @ozhoneybadger 2 роки тому +46

      His dad's the real legend

    • @marccas10
      @marccas10 2 роки тому +10

      Channel 4 and the BBC and The Guardian would miss Marcus Rashford more.

    • @gerrym5257
      @gerrym5257 2 роки тому +71

      @@ozhoneybadger I’ve been making this point for years, long before Brexit in fact. The world we live in today is a madhouse, the majority of the population are only interested in idiot celebrities and possessions.. I’ve given up trying to educate pork. I worked for years as an airline pilot (HGV driver of sorts), all the cabin attendants were interested in was finding a famous footballer or some such, one I knew married a plastic surgeon (for the money). It’s engineers, scientists and trades people that make the world go around, not footballers, or some pleb off strictly come dancing. Unfortunately your wasting your breath trying to point this out to the masses. Even my brother is a serial offender, telling me how extra special some boxer or snooker or darts player is. It never occurs to him to praise the hospital staff who stopped him losing a leg a few years back.
      Sigh!!

    • @ozhoneybadger
      @ozhoneybadger 2 роки тому +17

      @@gerrym5257 I agree. Materialism is impressive to people. Fame is impressive. Women want the easiest life.

  • @walter3433
    @walter3433 2 роки тому +1859

    Imagine training for 5 years as a vet only to get to check on whether donuts contain cream or not

    • @macjim
      @macjim 2 роки тому +150

      Even worse, what idiot came up with the regulation to have a vet check them just because they have cream in them? That's a food industry hygiene problem.

    • @davebox588
      @davebox588 2 роки тому +303

      @@macjim if the UK were importing products with cream in, let's say from Turkey or Russia, wouldn't you want them certified as safe for us to eat?
      So does the EU. We left and refused to align food standards. Whose fault is that?

    • @macjim
      @macjim 2 роки тому +42

      @@davebox588 yes, but if have an inspector from the food industry to check as its ‘cream’, not an animal...

    • @andypdq
      @andypdq 2 роки тому +195

      @@macjim Cream is of animal origin, we are no longer aligned with EU food standards so checks are required. It's solely down to Brexit.

    • @andylane247
      @andylane247 2 роки тому +105

      Another brexit bonus? Taking back control !!!!

  • @Wonkabar007
    @Wonkabar007 2 роки тому +377

    Big respect to this truck driver 👍

    • @jigler
      @jigler 2 роки тому +10

      And the rest?

    • @martinsmith1538
      @martinsmith1538 2 роки тому +3

      Too right. The rest as well.

    • @asensibleyoungman2978
      @asensibleyoungman2978 2 роки тому

      Why, just because she's a woman?

    • @thodystack
      @thodystack 2 роки тому +3

      What a great attitude she has. Very difficult to work those shifts. Could be away three days in perfect conditions. could be a week if you have a couple of little hold ups en route. Respect.

    • @RandomGamer-fw5fd
      @RandomGamer-fw5fd Рік тому

      she is a lovely hard working woman, i know her personally.

  • @dobbsmill3676
    @dobbsmill3676 2 роки тому +294

    Feels like we are clapping for the NHS again.
    Claps don't pay bills

    • @jailonbailey2149
      @jailonbailey2149 2 роки тому +2

      I’m not from the uk and I am on the floor hollering

    • @robertcazacu4149
      @robertcazacu4149 2 роки тому

      Hi you made my day 😂😂😂👍

    • @beanmw96
      @beanmw96 2 роки тому +1

      @XtraPixel they could, but then who would drive our lorries?

    • @andrewdavis7017
      @andrewdavis7017 2 роки тому

      I didn't clap I was busy working

    • @anthonylewis2080
      @anthonylewis2080 2 роки тому

      Government officials have used the NHS Trust as a way of "scoring points", yet they make little or no effort in updating systems, logistics and that's one talks about the recruitment process: some of those in there, aren't the envy of the world.

  • @DomingoDeSantaClara
    @DomingoDeSantaClara 2 роки тому +1937

    It's a pity the cameras didn't follow her into Europe,the way drivers are catered for over there is the difference between night and day. Their facilities are amazing and either free or very cheap,with access to clean toilets,showers and decent food at decent prices. The UK in comparison is a 3rd world country,I feel especially sorry for European drivers coming over here,the ones I've spoken to are shocked at the way drivers are treated here...shameful!

    • @pcqman26
      @pcqman26 2 роки тому +241

      In uk ...32£ for parking and @ 20£ or more for food in Europe with 10€ you eat well and the parking is free and in some services if you fill your truck with diesel more then 200 l you have the breakfast free..... no wonder why so many drivers left uk ..... and above all you are treated with respect ... Night and day... not even close....

    • @marcusfranconium3392
      @marcusfranconium3392 2 роки тому +64

      True usualy there is truckdriver only restaurants with healthy meals some even with acomodation for the night to have a good night rest and a shower. for free or minimal charge as it its payed for by the company .

    • @JP-oe4ry
      @JP-oe4ry 2 роки тому +80

      growing up in UK first then europe and only going back to visite family ...so many aspects of being in the UK is 3rd world country experiance. Coming to UK after over 2 years what with covid and all that..and all i can look forward to is a proper pint and prawn cocktail crisps...THATS.ALL!

    • @ligametis
      @ligametis 2 роки тому +20

      Your understanding of Europe is narrow. It isn't only Germany, Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland and Denmark with Norway.

    • @yodab.at1746
      @yodab.at1746 2 роки тому +165

      Britain's the 6th richest nation in the world, and we didn't get there paying decent wages or investing in good infrastructure. We did it with financial fraud and ripping our work force off. Victorian wealth was mostly built on slavery. Nothing really changed. Pff...

  • @solidoperative
    @solidoperative 2 роки тому +1475

    What a woman, so hard working. Her and the profession deserve so much more respect.

    • @solidoperative
      @solidoperative 2 роки тому +40

      @@fezario equal respect for either gender, I am sorry I don't think my statement discriminated between gender. I used the word 'profession' capturing all members of it.
      I thought it goes without saying and wouldn't need explaining or qualifying however some people deliberately seek outrage.

    • @eliasaims9687
      @eliasaims9687 2 роки тому +25

      @@fezario did u really make that into a gender thing? XD

    • @gabrielleslodowski3150
      @gabrielleslodowski3150 2 роки тому +9

      @hognoxious ...yes, women are strong ....helped you win the war...satisfactorily took over all your jobs in the factory, farms etc....but as usual, many men like you say such stupid things like 'old dear' to an Amazonian...all jealousy...would love to know what you do to help your wonderfull brexit situation.

    • @casteretpollux
      @casteretpollux 2 роки тому +1

      Please make captions available

    • @cmdreffietrinket
      @cmdreffietrinket 2 роки тому +4

      I’m confused; who doesn’t respect Truckers? Why does anyone assume that Truckers deserve, need, or seek more respect? Why the stated assumption that they currently lack respect. Lack respect from whom exactly? I have no less respect for a Trucker than I do for a Doctor, a Policeman, a Refuse Collector, a Scientist, or a bloke who sculpts replica coffee beans from Owl poop. Why is the world seemingly so focused on being respected and from a position that assumes that no one has respect for anyone else?

  • @wparo
    @wparo 2 роки тому +549

    Unfortunately, it's true. Road facilities for car and lorry drivers in the UK are very limited. I've driven to Europe, Africa and back for the past 10 years, and there is a major difference. Also, I know it's a different story, but the state of the roads in the UK are atrocious. I've driven in better roads in Tunisia and Algeria. Anyway, I am very grateful for all the UK is doing to improve. On the plus side, the UK is one of the safest countries to drive in, and driver manners are the best I've come across - usually.

    • @modrisusackis5733
      @modrisusackis5733 2 роки тому +41

      if you talking about truck driver manners then it's true but most of car drivers are so terrible...

    • @blackdeath1886
      @blackdeath1886 2 роки тому +2

      👍

    • @jenlin6715
      @jenlin6715 2 роки тому +47

      It makes no sense UK is the highest taxed place in Europe the only thing I can think is mass corruption and pathetic leadership.

    • @bax442
      @bax442 2 роки тому +14

      By improvements you mean smart motorways and tons of speed cameras?

    • @chchedda
      @chchedda 2 роки тому +13

      @@modrisusackis5733 depends where you are? Up north most seem to have some decent road manners and etiquette where I live anyway. Down south ( mainly Birmingham and London) are rude fuckers.

  • @LucyLu790
    @LucyLu790 2 роки тому +49

    The standards are so low for these drivers that they think weeing in a bucket, eating cold sandwiches for dinner and washing in dirty service station showers while paying £35 a night is a good thing. In France the Truck Service stops are top notch, drivers get treated great..No wonder why no one wants to do the job in the uk lol

    • @matty6848
      @matty6848 2 роки тому +7

      True. That’s why you’ve got to kit your truck out with a microwave, coffee maker and your own wifi so you have Netflix and T.V to watch on the night. I never eat cold food, just take a weeks worth in the truck fridge and heat it up in the microwave so I can at least enjoy a hot meal every night. But yes the facilities in the U.K are diabolical compared to mainland Europe, which is exactly why I always do continental deliveries👍🏼

    • @MrMirville
      @MrMirville 2 роки тому +4

      @@matty6848 Since Maggie Britain has gone into full class war against its productive workers.

  • @HShango
    @HShango 2 роки тому +544

    UK businesses do a terrible job of taking care of their work force #Poorly

    • @gazpf
      @gazpf 2 роки тому +25

      @@Sunburst42
      Move to The Philippines man, best thing i ever did, currently back in Wales though, stuck here due to there Covid19 laws as they took the disease seriously and stopped all foreigners coming in in March last year.
      I have a small farm, bamboo house on the side of a volcano on Mindanao and a beautiful missus out there.
      They welcome foreign immigrants with open arms and you get a 3 year tourist visa, leave for 24 hours and get another 3 year visa.
      It's a beautiful place and the people are so friendly, sea is a s warm as bath water and as clear as tap water, 30-35C every single day.
      I can't wait to get back out there.
      Up until then i, like you, was worker i had 2 businesses both of them where me in the UK and working in the EU in Czech, austria, france, germany, netherlands, i had 2 people working for me, who loved it but Brexit ended both of those businesses, great, i knew this was coming as soon as the leave vote come in in 2016, so i looked for somewhere else that i would be happy as i knew that Britain was about to fall to pieces and go back 150 years all due to a racist leave vote.
      Worked out well for me though as i would never of even thought of going somewhere like the philippines to live due to what i thought i knew about the place which was half a dozen news stories about the president being a nutter and killing 30,000 people and other things, how wrong those stories are, the filipino people love there president, he killed 30,000 drug dealers on the streets top get rid of them as he could see norther way, it worked, drugs are no longer a problem there after he killed all the dealers. Poverty is rife but you only see it in the big cities.
      It's a brilliant place, best place on earth as far as i'm concerned.

    • @gazpf
      @gazpf 2 роки тому +29

      I will never ever come back to the UK once i get to The Philippines next time, i'm out ion here and gone forever, that's one less tax payer to the tories, i hate them, Boris Johnson has nearly single handedly destroyed the UK in one move, just a little help from his racist mate Nigel Farage, who is still about on GB news spouting his right wing racist cr*p!
      The pair of them need locking up forever for what they have done to this country and the people who live here, they've destroyed it because of there lies.

    • @globalist1990
      @globalist1990 2 роки тому +2

      Precisely on point

    • @lauralishes1
      @lauralishes1 2 роки тому +15

      Tory Britain, what do you expect. Can you believe people vote for this misery.

    • @HShango
      @HShango 2 роки тому +13

      @@lauralishes1 shocks me all the time that there are people in england that voted for that oompa loompa (boris and the toffs)

  • @mike.B.1
    @mike.B.1 2 роки тому +347

    Meanwhile super rich trade properties worth billions in central London without paying taxes. And people like this driver work hard to pay taxes moving doughnuts

    • @illuminatusprimus3683
      @illuminatusprimus3683 2 роки тому +44

      The way I read it, the UK also just made it out before new anti money laundering and anti corruption laws Came into place in the EU. Who would have guessed...

    • @Mintghbghlkk
      @Mintghbghlkk 2 роки тому +2

      Let’s see who comes out as bent when the news comes to light soon about the tax haven dodgers (Pandora papers)

    • @alanjenkins1508
      @alanjenkins1508 2 роки тому +3

      To pay for imports we have to sell something abroad of equal value so we sell our property as we do not make enough things foreigners want.

    • @mcfrosty8739
      @mcfrosty8739 2 роки тому +8

      but according to those kind of people, all Helen has to do is work harder to be able to do the same! Because apparently that's all it takes :)

    • @garyspruce7736
      @garyspruce7736 2 роки тому

      @@alanjenkins1508 and rich foreign owners are stupid enough to pay the prices. It also generates thousands of building jobs and supply jobs connected.

  • @skedtm
    @skedtm 2 роки тому +47

    "A problem the goverment haven't fully faced up to"
    Pretty much sums up the goverment.

  • @andyrbush
    @andyrbush 2 роки тому +95

    I grew up in the UK and left. The UK is a miserable place where almost nothing is done properly, everything seems to be run down and short changed. Add being taxed into poverty, it is cold, wet and ridiculously expensive. I found that most places elsewhere are easily better options to the UK. The UK when I visit seems regulated to death, 'Big Brother' cameras everywhere, yet crime is still high.
    The joke is that so many UK people think they are in the best place in the world and that everywhere else is inferior - nothing could be further from the truth. The only thing the UK has better that I can't get as good elsewhere, is fish-n-chips, gala pie with egg in it and ale.

    • @andyrbush
      @andyrbush 2 роки тому +15

      @@ColonizerChan have lived and worked in the Middle East, Norway, USA, and Thailand. All were better than the UK. The Middle East for sure is warmer and pays about three times the UK and is tax free. The USA tax is minimal, you can do almost anything in the USA because it is not so restricted or as expensive as the UK. There is more land open to the public. You just about double your standard of living in the US over the UK. Norway is expensive and taxed high, but apart from possibly being the most beautiful country in the world, everything is covered by social programs. Thailand is warm and friendly. It is super cheap to live in. The medical, banking, transport and housing are the best anywhere I have lived.

    • @mmd6464
      @mmd6464 2 роки тому +1

      @@andyrbush where in the middle east that theys paid you that much?

    • @andyrbush
      @andyrbush 2 роки тому +6

      @@mmd6464 Abu Dhabi. Dubai, Qatar, Iraq

    • @fws2572
      @fws2572 2 роки тому

      What were you working if I may ask ?

    • @Justin-yt8zv
      @Justin-yt8zv 2 роки тому +7

      Just to dampen the mood further when I was traveling Vancouver Island I went out for fish and chips and it was one of the best I've had, the waitress joked that it won't be anywhere near as good as a UK fish and chips. I have lived abroad and travelled around and I completely agree with your sentiments, the UK has an awful quality of life over many other places and we pay through the roof for the privelidge. Some parts of the UK are nice but these places are really few and far between and unless you have loads of cash you are priced out.

  • @kerryfry1857
    @kerryfry1857 2 роки тому +132

    Binmen are just as undervalued. We have no toilet facilities. My driver was ran over today. The person who did it just swore at him as he lay in the road.

    • @michaelel650
      @michaelel650 2 роки тому +23

      You are essential workers and should be valued, respected and paid as such. In our economy most essential workers, from care workers to cleaners, seem to be taken for granted, disrespected and definitely underpaid. There is something wrong with our values and with our system, to paraphrase Beatty.

    • @TheWeepingDalek
      @TheWeepingDalek 2 роки тому +16

      Strike. See how quickly they appreciate you when the bins aren't collected

    • @fccassa
      @fccassa 2 роки тому +11

      @@TheWeepingDalek yep 👍. Office workers seem to be more valuable to the council than essential services and our council tax seems to go up and up.

    • @h3ntaihunt3r
      @h3ntaihunt3r 2 роки тому +4

      Yes that's why I left it was a cracking job but the way you get treated is disgusting 👌🏻

    • @johnl9234
      @johnl9234 2 роки тому +8

      Big respect to refuse collectors.
      You do a vital service .
      More thanI can say fir most MPs and BBC presenters and staff.

  • @klobasa007007
    @klobasa007007 2 роки тому +100

    That is why i am quitting HGV after 2.5 years...not even living or working in UK ....to be treated like the last sh*t on the earth is infuriating to me...good luck to all of you colleagues out there.

    • @mrcaboosevg6089
      @mrcaboosevg6089 2 роки тому +2

      There's good HGV jobs out there, you just gotta find them. Depends where you live too, it's much better up north than it is down south

    • @AWMJoeyjoejoe
      @AWMJoeyjoejoe 2 роки тому +1

      @@mrcaboosevg6089 Agreed. I love my job. The hardest thing I have to do is wind the trailer legs down! It's fantastic! Well paid too

    • @wishuponastar720
      @wishuponastar720 2 роки тому +2

      @bab ep3 Wishing you all the best in finding a better job 🤞

  • @2Pish
    @2Pish 2 роки тому +89

    Damn this makes America's trucker infrastructure look good...

    • @maggiejetson7904
      @maggiejetson7904 2 роки тому +17

      US trucking infra is good, but the pay can be low too (loading dock can be crowded and waiting is unpaid time), so it is also a tough job that young people won't do, but if you already have a truck and is doing owner operator then you can make decent money (60k USD to 100k USD if you are good), but still not great compare to the amount of work you put in (general contractor can pull 200k a year, commercial air conditioner tech 100k easily if you are good).

    • @andys31337
      @andys31337 2 роки тому +13

      Australia too. we figured out that decent rest areas, toilet stops etc, results in less fatigue and accidents too.

    • @randommexican5664
      @randommexican5664 2 роки тому

      Because it is good. Probably the best in the world. Certainly the most extensive.

    • @bjohnson1489
      @bjohnson1489 2 роки тому +2

      @@maggiejetson7904 just dont own a 2010 truck or older in the peoples repulic of kalifornia. You cant even license it its illegal

    • @warreneckels4945
      @warreneckels4945 2 роки тому +1

      It has been improving thanks to competition and somebody realizing that higher standards bring in more money. (I don't know about the showers, though.)

  • @stpirate89
    @stpirate89 2 роки тому +58

    Whilst I appreciate the long hours and work she does, I can't help but feel it's incredibly wasteful for doughnuts to be travelling three days by a lorry, same with the milkshakes.

    • @tookitogo
      @tookitogo 2 роки тому +2

      Right!?! I had exactly the same thought.

    • @gordonlawrence1448
      @gordonlawrence1448 2 роки тому +13

      Mind boggling isnt it? The flip side though is costs. Processed food of the dairy variety is so much cheaper here. That is down to raw milk being 6p/litre. In Germany it is heading to triple that. Skimming off the cream to make skimmed milk vastly increases the profit margins over here. The cost of transporting an individual donut is also rediculously low. There were probably about 300,000 in that lorry. Each tray can hold 120. 480 to a stack, 4 stacks to a trolley. That's 2000 near enough per trolley. An HGV does about 2000M/L of fuel on a bad day. It's about 1600KM so we are talking £1000 in fuel that's only 0.3p per donut. Call it 45 hours driving @£15 per hour. That's less than 0.25p/donut. So with the cost of the train or ferry we are talking 0.6p. If they are just 0.65p cheaper than the locals for a supermarket it makes sense. The supermarket probably takes 3 loads per week. So even if they are just 0.005p per donut cheaper that is a saving of near quarter of a million per year.

    • @stpirate89
      @stpirate89 2 роки тому +6

      @@gordonlawrence1448 There's a program on tv here sometimes called Inside the Factory, and it's really interesting to see the large amounts of engineering that go into manufacture. One episode that stuck in my mind was one episode where it shows these frozen pizzas made in Italy that take about 3 hours for the ingredients to come into the factory to be turned into a pizza, and it's then sold in a UK supermarket for about £1, it's silly really. Whilst it's more efficient in terms of money, I can't see it being more efficient in terms of carbon production.

    • @tookitogo
      @tookitogo 2 роки тому +6

      @@gordonlawrence1448 Thank you for the breakdown. That explains why it makes financial sense. I think it also exemplifies how transportation is actually too cheap, insofar as the price of transportation has so far been really bad at capturing _all_ the costs it incurs, like pollution and the health problems it causes (and in turn, lost productivity caused by illness caused by pollution), lost time and reduced quality of life from having the extra traffic on the highways, etc.

    • @jrhackman7414
      @jrhackman7414 2 роки тому

      I’m just wondering why it took that long, probably had to wait a day to unload.

  • @rudiarendse8597
    @rudiarendse8597 2 роки тому +158

    Above all else they deserve better facilities with greater capacity and better security! Reinstating respect won't keep drivers in the industry and certainly won't attract anymore.

    • @markslater1081
      @markslater1081 2 роки тому +1

      thought that was what unions were for

    • @richardevans2014
      @richardevans2014 2 роки тому

      @@markslater1081 shut up will ya you don't have a clue you are just a mug. What are the Union gonna do thats more shite then the actual government.

    • @orsoncart1547
      @orsoncart1547 2 роки тому +1

      You don't hear of shortages of train drivers and bad pay and conditions there. Strong unions perhaps?
      Britain has had trade unions for over 100 years because they didn't expect, even back then, companies to be as altruistic as brexitears have suddenly become now for some reason.
      Now that they need an excuse for their historic folly that is
      You numpties ain't fooling anyone with your sudden love for your fellow workers now.
      Where were you when the miners had industrial action, or teachers, junior doctors, council workers, or train drivers etc?
      Just fakes really aren't you?

    • @orsoncart1547
      @orsoncart1547 2 роки тому +1

      @Josh wtf? where's he going to put his tea then? On the floor? Health and safety.Now, maybe if they let him stop train on route to use the onboard canteen, every 3/4 of an hour I could see your issues, but your talking about someones tea break here, you know?
      Where do you think we actually are Germany?
      Missing panels? What's underneath those panels then? What about turbulence? I've never seen even a bus going along with missing panels, or a lorry, let alone a train.
      Where do you think we are India?

    • @orsoncart1547
      @orsoncart1547 2 роки тому

      @Josh your coming out with the same problems as everywhere else, which is a lack of inward investment by companies, but at least rail workers have better conditions than lorry drivers is my piont, so this money for them and the conditions had to be fought for.
      Even though they may take it too far, at least thats down to the individual, regarding the cup and the loose panel and they have s choice to be like that.

  • @Truthseeker1515
    @Truthseeker1515 2 роки тому +300

    A very difficult life on the roads (terrible hours, low pay) with UK employers having exploited EU drivers for years to what is seen as a low-skilled, cheap labour force. And it is not. It requires tremendous skills to drive a lorry. Especially with a trailer. Thatcher scrapped HGV apprenticeships (which were subsidized by the government) in the late 80s. Why is this not raised by Johnson? Yes, that was under the Tories! Brexit is finally bringing to light what has been hiding for so long. The UK's deep structural inequalities, the xenophobia....

    • @HShango
      @HShango 2 роки тому +1

      Agreed, they do it way too much

    • @BritishFreedom
      @BritishFreedom 2 роки тому +13

      @Rory O'Neill Wages for the little man are going up thanks to Brexit. I think that's a good thing. So thankyou Boris. All he needs to do is build some good truck stops.

    • @californiadreamin8423
      @californiadreamin8423 2 роки тому +21

      @@BritishFreedom What proportion of the workforce are “little men”, and AFTER INFLATION how much are their wages going up by ?

    • @forsdykemontague1017
      @forsdykemontague1017 2 роки тому +10

      It’s up to companies to train its drivers not the Government, Tories are for free enterprise and small state, it is the haulage industry that is to blame for capitalising on cheap Labour and not training drivers.

    • @BritishFreedom
      @BritishFreedom 2 роки тому +4

      @Rory O'Neill USAs inflation rate is 5.3%. Germanys inflation is on 4.4% and the Eurozone inflation is the same as that of the UK around 3.4%.. So what are you talking about?

  • @machinegun333
    @machinegun333 2 роки тому +169

    Love that disappointed look on the managers face when she says "oh nice one" telling all us watching that him sorting and organising her paperwork in the morning is obviously a one off for the camera haha 😄

    • @joshuagiles7084
      @joshuagiles7084 2 роки тому +14

      Yeah lol that don't happen.... you get chucked a folder with minimal paperwork in and told to crack on

  • @mgore90
    @mgore90 2 роки тому +59

    I remember visiting my father-in-law in France for the first time. He was excited to take us to one of his favourite restaurants -- it was a truck stop. Imagine anyone in the UK taking you to a motorway service station -- partially with the goal, it can be assumed, of impressing you!
    To clarify, the food was indeed good, not fantastic, but on the level of the sort of pub grub that'd get 4.8/5 on trip advisor in the UK.

    • @bartoszbielecki1722
      @bartoszbielecki1722 2 роки тому +12

      In Poland if you want to eat good with good price you have to chose road restaurants where is a lot o lorries. That is best recomendation

    • @ruinerblodsinn6648
      @ruinerblodsinn6648 2 роки тому +5

      @@bartoszbielecki1722 man, I need to get some Żurek into my stomach soon. My favourite dish from Poland!

    • @bartoszbielecki1722
      @bartoszbielecki1722 2 роки тому +4

      @@ruinerblodsinn6648 you have to try highlanders "kwaśnica" its like żurek at next level 😍

    • @ruinerblodsinn6648
      @ruinerblodsinn6648 2 роки тому +2

      @@bartoszbielecki1722 thanks man, I will try to find it!

    • @Priest92
      @Priest92 2 роки тому +1

      @@bartoszbielecki1722 thanks! Travelled to Poland alot and will try this out

  • @dirkdriessen1133
    @dirkdriessen1133 2 роки тому +95

    There is a rule for HGV drivers, everyone knows "never drive into it without knowing how to exit it",. Once only applied to roads now applies to a hole country.

    • @elenastone6011
      @elenastone6011 2 роки тому +4

      300,000 HGV drivers, 2000 left a week and half only join-in .... no wonder there are problems. They should increase their salary and incentives and train more drivers. Driverless lorries - I don't think so.... there are many unforseen circumstances that only humans can sort out.

    • @neodym5809
      @neodym5809 2 роки тому +7

      @@elenastone6011 why become a lorry driver if so many other job offerings with better wages and working conditions are available?

    • @sarojtamang4471
      @sarojtamang4471 2 роки тому

      @@neodym5809 hi I'm also lorry driver now as working qatar

    • @briumphbimbles
      @briumphbimbles 2 роки тому +1

      Whole*

    • @smc2069
      @smc2069 2 роки тому

      @@neodym5809 i can only speak for myself but im in with a good company. Class 2 earning ~65k.
      Delivering to mcdonalds.
      Hemel hempstead depot.
      Had a huge 25% payrise about 10weeks ago.
      Im at my earnings ceiling for class 2 though.
      Class 1 can earn up to £35 ph atm in the south east

  • @garybarrett4881
    @garybarrett4881 2 роки тому +441

    I don’t know which is more awful: that the conditions are this awful or that the Tories have no plans to fix anything

    • @illuminatusprimus3683
      @illuminatusprimus3683 2 роки тому +22

      Both I would presume... but it is like with all socalled "low qualified" and unfortunately "low paid" jobs... they require a lot more skill than socalled high profile jobs. An Investmentbanker has his office and doesn't need to worry about some football rolling down the street with a kid suddenly appearing behind it and make a split second decision. It is time to honour the so-called low end jobs... but that would take a population that supports a new start. BoJo does want a new start. Maybe not the one he will get I presume. It is time for the British people to demand real Change and policies that actually produce results. Something the Tories seem to be able not to deliver for more or less a decade. And still you read comments like... Oh, if somebody else would be in power it would be soooo much worse. I could go on and on...

    • @billkingston4402
      @billkingston4402 2 роки тому +2

      Both

    • @leonblittle226
      @leonblittle226 2 роки тому +19

      Labour had a decade to fix it ........ did they??

    • @illuminatusprimus3683
      @illuminatusprimus3683 2 роки тому +28

      @@leonblittle226 that's bullshitting and not adding to the conversation or debate at all.

    • @ricardosilva4940
      @ricardosilva4940 2 роки тому +6

      @@illuminatusprimus3683 How do you see England to be able to have a good economy without EU open market?
      EU born immediately after WW2, and after the end on the british empire.
      In the 2 years i lived in UK, being blocked of working in my profession and forced to be warehouse worker, i noticed one big detail, that has to do with the old british empire: too much population fro the size and food production of the island...
      UK are not an empire heart anymore. Today its totally unbalanced. But because it was integrated in EU and being the top 5 developed in EU, the market balance to support that size of population was there.
      Now what? You can import low wage africans and asians as you wish and need for the industry of today, but, that industry will be economically sustainable to produce for what market?
      EU will not buy... USA will not buy... Russia will not buy... Africa and latin america? Maybe... but you will have to be able to compete against USA + EU + China....

  • @jaymac7203
    @jaymac7203 2 роки тому +30

    "A vet has to come out and say "yes that's a donut" loool 😭😭😭😂😂😂😂

    • @gregnixon1296
      @gregnixon1296 2 роки тому +3

      The government at work.

    • @gordonlawrence1448
      @gordonlawrence1448 2 роки тому

      @@gregnixon1296 Nope that's the EU at work.

    • @livaugirard3383
      @livaugirard3383 2 роки тому +3

      @@gordonlawrence1448 Brexit at work

    • @ep4423
      @ep4423 2 роки тому +5

      International treaties signed by UK government at work.

    • @ooooneeee
      @ooooneeee 2 роки тому +1

      @@gordonlawrence1448 UK failed at negotiating a good deal at work.

  • @MandNsvideos665
    @MandNsvideos665 2 роки тому +26

    I think a lot of people tend to forget, respect doesn't pay the bills.

  • @chrissmith4766
    @chrissmith4766 2 роки тому +68

    They should've gone into one of the ones where the start to the day is waiting for 3-4 hours. I'd often be working in the drivers areas and on many nights I counted 8+ drivers all waiting for hours on end. Half of it is mis-management.
    Warehouse staff treated like garbage, can't get trailers loaded in time, drivers wait for hours. Load arrives late and gets rejected, trailer comes back full. Driver gets bollocked for failed delivery despite it being out of their control. Following day trailers get loaded late because of a lack of empty trailers, rinse and repeat.
    The whole thing is broken and was built on the back of exploiting disposable work forces both in the warehouses and with drivers.

    • @redneckguy2169
      @redneckguy2169 2 роки тому +11

      Ya that's right. When you're late before you leave, it's your fault.
      I used to write on the bill of lading arival,start and finish loading time. Usually didn't go over well.
      Shippers and receivers need to be regulated more than they are.
      And actually be held accountable.
      Of course I got black balled and when it came time I quit trucking.
      That was 28 years ago....
      It's been broken for a long time.

    • @recall2880
      @recall2880 2 роки тому +3

      Warehouse staff have been treated more like garbage since about 2005 and after

    • @Taser290
      @Taser290 2 роки тому

      Sounds like a Superdrug warehouse to me 🤣

    • @maggiejetson7904
      @maggiejetson7904 2 роки тому

      This is actually everywhere like in US too, but at least they don't have too much custom crossing nonsense.

    • @RyanJBroady
      @RyanJBroady 2 роки тому

      Brexit obviously ain't helped getting a vet over to check a donut when they should be helping sick animals great use of vets already scarce time.

  • @floatybiscuits
    @floatybiscuits 2 роки тому +181

    Helen is an absolute star. I wish her all the best and a great weekend too!

  • @jordanredding7357
    @jordanredding7357 2 роки тому +35

    It’s insane. The wages, facilities, attitude towards drivers but without us being trained to drive lorries up to 44tn in weight then everyone in the UK wouldn’t literally be fucked…

    • @anthonyrobinson782
      @anthonyrobinson782 2 роки тому +4

      People especially car drivers don't realise without trucks the country would come to a stop.
      I say all truckers should park up for 2 wks and watch the country grind to a halt

    • @jordanredding7357
      @jordanredding7357 2 роки тому +1

      @@anthonyrobinson782 it’d be interesting to see that mate! Not sure people in general realise what it takes to do this job either but I’m sure some Karen will tell me how easy it is sooner or later 😂 they should teach learners what to do at roundabouts etc on lorry turning circles really but I’m hearing that they’re putting people straight into their class one now without having to reverse on the test! 😳🤯

    • @anthonyrobinson782
      @anthonyrobinson782 2 роки тому

      That's gonna be fun to see on the road,

  • @coover65
    @coover65 2 роки тому +38

    As an Australian I take my hat off to any British driver, whether they've got a car or a semi trailer. Narrow city streets must be a nightmare, and from what I've seen in videos even your freeways seem constantly crowded. Your fuel prices are scary too! One good thing I guess is the short distances. London to Glasgow is just a short drive, whereas I can drive for three days in my home state and not cross a state border.

    • @gordonlawrence1448
      @gordonlawrence1448 2 роки тому +3

      The M25 is basically a circular car park at some times of day. Also forget the short distances. I used to live 30 miles from work. (48k) almost exactly. Typically in the morning it took 4 1/2 hours which was at least faster and cheaper than the train. Distance and time are not even remotely connected in England. Some routes you can average 50MPH (80kmh) easily others you are lucky to do walking pace for much of it even though you are on a 6 lane motorway.

    • @coover65
      @coover65 2 роки тому +3

      @@jitenmehra17 No offence but we have a lot of Indian drivers in Australia and to be honest their driving abilities in general leave a lot to be desired. Perhaps learning to drive in India is less involved.

    • @1985Viggen
      @1985Viggen 2 роки тому +1

      U should try driving a semi trailer in the north part of Sweden when it's winter or in Norway xD

    • @coover65
      @coover65 2 роки тому

      @@1985Viggen The Australian equivalent is driving on dirt roads for 1,000km in 45C and only seeing another vehicle every 4-5 hours or so.

    • @norfolknomad
      @norfolknomad Рік тому +1

      @@1985Viggen where do I sign up?

  • @manjitdhami
    @manjitdhami 2 роки тому +82

    Improve the facilities for HGV drivers and they will happily return, most service stations are filthy and I personally would prefer a wild loo than a UTI

    • @Tommy-on6sl
      @Tommy-on6sl 2 роки тому +10

      The general public also don’t respect community facilities, I have noticed that since I moved away from the uk. We can’t have nice things for everyone to enjoy because there seems to be a culture of vandalism there. Public toilets in Australia have been almost spotless every time, parks, stations, shopping centres, outdoor gyms. If you had an outdoor gym in a town in the uk the equipment will be ripped off the ground and destroyed within a week I guarantee it.

    • @RyanJBroady
      @RyanJBroady 2 роки тому +1

      It's not just about bogs, it's about a lack of people full stop due to brexit and shite wages.

  • @jamesgtmoore
    @jamesgtmoore 2 роки тому +49

    Transporting donuts 1000 miles is illogically inefficient and ecologically unnecessarily damaging.

    • @PedroConejo1939
      @PedroConejo1939 2 роки тому +8

      Too many people make too much money for it to change anytime soon.

    • @grahamstevenson1740
      @grahamstevenson1740 2 роки тому +4

      I think you're assuming that common sense applies to such decisions to make/stop making 'stuff' anywhere. The EU's lack of borders made it easy to transport that stuff around willy nilly. Now it's rather more tricky. Consequences that were ignored by those who should have known far better.

    • @raithrover1976
      @raithrover1976 2 роки тому +2

      I think you've stumbled upon the solution to the climate change crisis: a donut manufacturing facility in every town! Maybe we need Homer Simpson in charge rather than the shower we have at the moment.

    • @PedroConejo1939
      @PedroConejo1939 2 роки тому +7

      @@raithrover1976 We used to have them, they were called bakeries.

    • @tiefensucht
      @tiefensucht 2 роки тому +2

      Yeah, transport is too cheap.

  • @marclawyer2789
    @marclawyer2789 2 роки тому +74

    So the doughnuts were 2 days old when they arrived in Germany and no one makes them in Germany?
    The craziness of modern capitalism...
    I don't envy the drivers at all, especially for the pay, and the average age is over 50...thought about training myself (coach driver atm) but the costs too high and the pay miserable (ALL the lorry drivers I've spoken to have warned me off and said they're quitting soon...
    A modern system of delivery built on the shoulders of over stretched drivers is shaky at best, and doomed at worst...

    • @waveman1500
      @waveman1500 2 роки тому +13

      Absolutely, what a terrible supply chain.
      Cream donuts and milkshakes are better when fresh and they can be made locally where the demand is. Why are they travelling from one country to the other in a truck?

    • @gr8macaw1
      @gr8macaw1 2 роки тому +2

      It is crazy come on even I can make donuts.

    • @kirk2767
      @kirk2767 2 роки тому +4

      For about a year, I was not able to buy the hash-brown patties I like. When my store finally got them again, I noticed it says "Product of Belgium" on the back.
      No wonder I couldn't get them. I live in Florida.

    • @AdeptPaladin
      @AdeptPaladin 2 роки тому +3

      @@waveman1500 Milkshakes is probably the kind of pre-mixed cream and sugar you find in local McDonalds where it is used in a soft-serve or milkshake machine for the final process. No chain which makes milkshakes as a significant volume of their business relies on making a milkshake from scratch in store.

    • @ooooneeee
      @ooooneeee 2 роки тому +12

      Late stage capitalism at work: being so obsessed with "efficiency" that you lose touch completely and end up creating an absurd, inefficient system that functions poorly.

  • @231shivakumarvt2
    @231shivakumarvt2 2 роки тому +66

    This points that we didn't respect every job and we should start respecting every job by policy changing

    • @sajuente8235
      @sajuente8235 2 роки тому +4

      I dont need to respect this job more than just doing a simple shopping. Boss must respect workers more and pay them more so they know what they working for

    • @user-ms7gt2km5f
      @user-ms7gt2km5f 2 роки тому +2

      Keep voting conservative, keep up the spite.

    • @OneBiteoftheCherry
      @OneBiteoftheCherry 2 роки тому +2

      @@user-ms7gt2km5f Tory, Labour...what's the difference any more. They're both useless 95% of the time.

    • @user-fs8pf2rt9z
      @user-fs8pf2rt9z 2 роки тому +4

      Doesn’t matter who you vote for you clown, politicians are all the same, benefiting there own pockets! Cut there wages and put it elsewhere, where it is needed

  • @lacdirk
    @lacdirk 2 роки тому +80

    Honestly, bringing cream donuts across the channel? 48 hours. That cannot be the most economic way to do things anymore.

    • @NMY232
      @NMY232 2 роки тому +24

      Correct. It is quite likely that donut supply chain will move to a more local, reliable supplier in the EU.

    • @edgeyt1
      @edgeyt1 2 роки тому

      Trade.

    • @lacdirk
      @lacdirk 2 роки тому +7

      @@edgeyt1 Trade is a way to allow economies to focus on their comparative advantage and - in some cases - to provide meaningful additional choice and competition to the market.
      But the UK has no comparative advantage in cream donut making. At least not that I know off. And mass-produced donuts that are days old at sale are commodities, i.e. very little additional choice can come from having a British supplier.
      Which leaves competition, but the brexit barriers to trade make the UK less competitive overall. Unless the workers start earning significantly less than any comparably trained employee in the EU ... this is not a real competition.
      This is the kind of trade that will not survive. As will a lot of the supply chain trade in unfinished products, at least those going to the EU.

    • @thebionicwoman1762
      @thebionicwoman1762 2 роки тому

      @@NMY232 or in the UK mayB??

    • @NMY232
      @NMY232 2 роки тому +11

      @@thebionicwoman1762 Here we are talking specifically about that existing supply chain of UK donuts being exported and sold in the EU. Presumably if there was as big and lucrative a market for those donuts within the UK, then the company would simply sell them there in the first place.
      With the Brexit-increased trade barriers, it is likely that this particular supply chain (and millions of others) will simply shift to an easier flow with longer shelf life.. e.g. The German donut company that sourced from the UK would simply change to a supplier elsewhere in the EU. Or the UK supplier transfers jobs and production into an EU country in order to continue trading there.

  • @GaffaTV
    @GaffaTV 2 роки тому +43

    I wanted to be a HGV driver many years ago but was advised multiple times not to touch the industry with a barge pole, a couple of times from people who do it or had retired.
    No idea what the numbers are these days, but 27k starting wage for a '40 hours per week on paper, 60 hours in reality' job in consideration of the working (and resting) conditions and sadly I decided to do other work...
    Being an Uber driver working the night shifts, being able to choose when and where I work and how often, making no less than £23 an hour across the week was a far better choice. Still have some issues to deal with, but things really have to be changed in multiple ways for people like myself and others to really consider HGV driving.

    • @nemo.87
      @nemo.87 2 роки тому +2

      £23 per hour? Which city?

    • @GaffaTV
      @GaffaTV 2 роки тому

      @@nemo.87 Liverpool, UK.

    • @raithrover1976
      @raithrover1976 2 роки тому +2

      Agreed. Companies often abuse the POA rules to have drivers working 12 hour shifts regularly.

    • @mohammeda4135
      @mohammeda4135 2 роки тому +1

      Uber fook the driver

    • @GaffaTV
      @GaffaTV 2 роки тому +1

      @@mohammeda4135 - I don't disagree with you. The 25% cut is a bit much and they should really offer something as low as 10% or 15% for Uber Pro drivers on the higher tiers... or something.
      Uber has its fair share of issues too, and obviously being a nightshift driver, you have to deal with all the crazy madness in the middle of the night from people's intoxication, but hey that's not too bad if you develop coping strategies / look past that.

  • @mozed5832
    @mozed5832 2 роки тому +22

    What an inspiration she is, does what she can in the circumstances she’s in.

  • @scudosmyth784
    @scudosmyth784 2 роки тому +70

    My last house was near a small industrial estate, when walking the dog often there were a couple of parked lorries/artics, if they were awake I would stand and talk to them (some Polish) they were all great guys but had nowhere nearby to park for their drop offs. That was 15 years back.

  • @olmostgudinaf8100
    @olmostgudinaf8100 2 роки тому +40

    “I hate driving in the UK.” So I bet do European HGV drivers. But they at least have a choice.
    I speculated a few months ago that the time will come when only the drivers and haulage companies that do not have the choice will operate in the UK. It looks like the time has come.

  • @marianacabrera3311
    @marianacabrera3311 2 роки тому +18

    Thanks 😊so much for your hard work Hellen! It's appreciated. God bless you always when on the road.

  • @masteryoda7207
    @masteryoda7207 2 роки тому +26

    Sounds like improving trucking facilities is definitely the answer, its the least these workers deserve.

    • @apocalypto559
      @apocalypto559 2 роки тому

      The main reason for the shortage is the meager payrates. Its getting better tho.

  • @rolandsingh
    @rolandsingh 2 роки тому +3

    This lorry driver and all other drivers in the critical 'Supply Chain' everywhere on this planet, deserve the highest respect.
    It is a VERY stressful job, not to mention the personal family time lost, when being on the road for extended periods of time. I can never forget a surprise visit from a friend of mine, who was a long distance(Canada, USA, Mexico)driver.
    He drove what we call Tractor Trailers in North America. The tractor cab hooks up, to a fifty-three foot long completely enclosed trailer. I accompanied him, on a trip to a warehouse, near my office; I remember looking at the cab's main
    right hand side exterior mirror, as he backed up this monster, towards the loading dock. It seemed an impossible task,
    the length of the entire vehicle was enormous! Professional Truck Operators, special people, indeed! ❤ 100% ❤
    Roland Singh, Canada 🇨🇦

    • @gardenjoy5223
      @gardenjoy5223 2 роки тому

      Sorry, but I don't see the critical part of the supply chain here. Not for dairy luxury products to travel two ways across the channel.

  • @katecannon7958
    @katecannon7958 2 роки тому +192

    What a woman! God bless her she’s fabulous

    • @TheChiefEng
      @TheChiefEng 2 роки тому +11

      The government ministers should be forced to drive with her to understand the consequences of their stupidity and arrogance.

    • @johnmitchell2269
      @johnmitchell2269 2 роки тому +1

      Most drivers are, not just her.

    • @Sacrifice-Paid
      @Sacrifice-Paid 2 роки тому

      @@johnmitchell2269 unfortunately to most people, Hgv drivers are like marmite…….

    • @redblade8160
      @redblade8160 2 роки тому

      @@Sacrifice-Paid
      I agree and both tatse disgusting!

    • @Sacrifice-Paid
      @Sacrifice-Paid 2 роки тому +1

      @@redblade8160 so ur saying hgv driver’s are disgusting?

  • @adamabele785
    @adamabele785 2 роки тому +24

    Now the woman has spend 5 hours waiting for something. In the same time she could have done some deliveries. And this extra time is what produces the shortage in part. It is ineffective work, the sand between the wheels. This is what happens, when you do not accept common standards and procedures. The vendors offered that you can pick up your goods or they ship it to you. But now they don´t ship their goods any longer to the UK and do all the paperwork. So they leave it to the customer to buy the stuff in the EU and the customer has to bring it to the UK at his own costs and has to deal with customs. That is also a part of the driver shortage as more UK drivers need to pick up goods in the EU that were delivered before.

    • @serinadelmar6012
      @serinadelmar6012 2 роки тому +6

      Brexit is what causes the shortages, nothing else.

    • @olmostgudinaf8100
      @olmostgudinaf8100 2 роки тому +3

      @@serinadelmar6012 That's what Adam said, only with more detail.

    • @johnl9234
      @johnl9234 2 роки тому +1

      @@serinadelmar6012 No. Brexit played a role but all of us drivers knew what was going to happen when Toy Blair opened the floodgates to cheap EU drivers in 2004. We witnessed the arrogance of firms towards English drivers. This topic is brought up time and again by disgruntled drivers and the industry had better start listening pretty soon.

    • @serinadelmar6012
      @serinadelmar6012 2 роки тому +2

      @@johnl9234 I agree with you, normally they would wait seven years upon EU membership but instead there was a flood of cheap labour that the British government did nothing about, even took advantage of, and then on exiting the EU also did absolutely ZIP resulting in the chaos the UK is in now, which is entirely down to Brexit. As evidenced by the lack of problems in Europe and Northern Ireland. to qualify that by lack of problems, I mean a running supply chain, obviously there are definite problems, and a profound lack of services especially in the UK which the government also did nothing about regarding HGV drivers. But all of this, Brexit.

    • @johnl9234
      @johnl9234 2 роки тому +2

      @@serinadelmar6012 Serina delmar! Only partly to do with Brexit.
      We used 20000 EU drivers who have all left. We are still 80000 short. Why? It is not through retirements only. Many have decided to quit. We could have been given some incentives in the government letter we all got,such as scrapping the CPC for older drivers, not requiring us to renew our digi card and reduced income tax on over-time. Just a few points that would go along way in addressing the driver shortage.
      And what does Boris do?
      Expect the industry to sort it out!
      Like tomorrow!!!

  • @christopheblanchi4777
    @christopheblanchi4777 2 роки тому +5

    But hey Farage has said that thanks to Brexit, Truckers can now work longer hours to solve the truck driver availability. What a irresponsible grifter.

    • @phiksit
      @phiksit 2 роки тому

      I'd like to see a financial review of his assets after pulling off this HUGE scam... just like they are doing with Trump and his Scottish golf course. Brexit definitely making life more miserable for Brits. Did everyone receive their sovereign citizen ID in mail? >_

  • @richardgiles9547
    @richardgiles9547 2 роки тому +5

    Everything you buy, everything's you use and everything you own is courtesy of British lorry drivers. The house you live, if built after the 1920's courtesy of lorry drivers. Water, electricity and gas infrastructure courtesy of drivers. We are expected to be professional when being lectured to by VOSA and the police, we are despised by car drivers who want to get to their destination 5 minutes early. Our pay is not commensurate with our duties. I say our, I retired a year ago and wild horses wouldn't get me back in the cab.

  • @Gintaras64
    @Gintaras64 2 роки тому +129

    She should try working in EU only, she looks like decent driver, we could use people like her.

    • @Dennis-gr8ex
      @Dennis-gr8ex 2 роки тому +18

      Has she got an Irish passport? Otherwise she's stuck on plague island.

    • @blackbob3358
      @blackbob3358 2 роки тому +1

      @@Dennis-gr8ex you'll know not to come then, mush. on ya way, albatross head. sort ya ( STILL manacled) head out. geeeez.

    • @ScratchySlide
      @ScratchySlide 2 роки тому +6

      @@Dennis-gr8ex Bell end.

    • @Dennis-gr8ex
      @Dennis-gr8ex 2 роки тому +17

      @@ScratchySlide name calling is the best you've got? Hahaha you must be hangry or something, must be the empty shelves.

    • @ScratchySlide
      @ScratchySlide 2 роки тому +4

      @@Dennis-gr8ex No empty shelves where I am, mate. That's a southern problem.

  • @janhermanvanman9581
    @janhermanvanman9581 2 роки тому +8

    As 22 Yr old on HGV I can tell you to prepare for even worse shortages. Avarage age of drivers is around 60 yrs and retire faster than can be replaced.
    People aged 20-30 stay unemployed, live with parents, or work for £9hr. I worked 4hrs recently and my rate is £170 a shift. That's £42.50/hr. Back home every day, working the same hours as my mechanic mate or even less, never had problems with any stops or services or never slept in a truck. Yet people still chosen unemployment over filling well paid vacancies for Truck drivers.
    Typical van driver does 10-15hrs or a day with 120-150 drops, truck driver can do as little as 1-4 drops (can get 8-12 but usually they are close by to meet driving times limits, anything more I wouldn't work for thay company) and 8-10hrs for nearly double the money, think people, look for companies that also care about the drivers and HGV work is actually a great and well paid career.

    • @rossgildea3515
      @rossgildea3515 2 роки тому

      Have you got any leads? Im thinking of changing career, Im not interested in desk work and I've got a regular drivers license. I've got experience driving around London in a ford transit. Not a HGV I know but I've done more than a Sunday drive.

    • @joshcoyne2983
      @joshcoyne2983 2 роки тому +1

      You're definitely a transport manager struggling for drivers 😂😂😂😂

  • @Jmastives
    @Jmastives 2 роки тому +6

    She is such a wonderful woman. Its all coming out now how hard they have it. It's terrible.

  • @sb9191
    @sb9191 2 роки тому +4

    British media/public will sympathise with HGV drivers for a little while until there's no shortage issue is resolved, and they will move on to the next big issue. Same as the support shown to NHS staff during the height of the pandemic, and now what's changed for front line.

  • @TheGramophoneGirl
    @TheGramophoneGirl 2 роки тому +38

    Weeing in a bucket! That is pretty much one reason I won't do that job (and I have a provisional HGV licence). The UK desperately needs more facilities for truck drivers.

    • @slackalice4890
      @slackalice4890 2 роки тому +1

      It won't happen, if more facilities are provided they'll soon be spoiled by a minority of drivers to don't care. Drivers are their own worst enemies

    • @TheGramophoneGirl
      @TheGramophoneGirl 2 роки тому +11

      @@slackalice4890 That could be said about anyone. And why let a minority ruin it for everyone. The facilities should be provided and cleaned. It's a small price to pay to encourage a wide range of new drivers to the profession.

    • @slackalice4890
      @slackalice4890 2 роки тому +1

      @@TheGramophoneGirl let's hope you're correct. Good luck if you decide to take your test

    • @TheGramophoneGirl
      @TheGramophoneGirl 2 роки тому +1

      @@slackalice4890 Thanks. I'm not sure I will. It'll take years for things to improve - if they ever do.

    • @slackalice4890
      @slackalice4890 2 роки тому +5

      @@TheGramophoneGirl I have my doubts too, all talk in this country

  • @escapetheratracenow9883
    @escapetheratracenow9883 2 роки тому +34

    I quit driving artics 15 years ago. Wages, congestion and facilities were poor then, they are shocking now. There's no amount of money you could pay me to return to the industry. Not only did I quit driving trucks, I quit the UK altogether and retired at the ripe old age of 45.

    • @nigeh5326
      @nigeh5326 2 роки тому +4

      If wages were so poor for you how did you retire at 45? If your wages were so low you wouldn’t have been able to put money away to retire at 45.

    • @escapetheratracenow9883
      @escapetheratracenow9883 2 роки тому +15

      @@nigeh5326 Simple. I sold my house, sold everything we couldn't carry, loaded everything else into my Astravan and set off on a road trip across Europe till we found a new place to call home. We are still here, still living the dream ten years later. And we are free!

    • @planesimple8619
      @planesimple8619 2 роки тому +6

      @@escapetheratracenow9883 nice! Either way something needs to give in the uk

    • @seangallagher6075
      @seangallagher6075 2 роки тому +7

      @@escapetheratracenow9883 Fair play to you.. I'm thinking of selling every thing & buying a boat... Everything is just getting to fucking expensive now..

    • @inerit5175
      @inerit5175 2 роки тому +3

      @@seangallagher6075 spot on!

  • @paulholla
    @paulholla 2 роки тому +2

    There is plenty of hgv drivers in this country but company's don't want to pay a decent wage and facilities for drivers are shocking...

  • @AliAhmed-jx4uq
    @AliAhmed-jx4uq 2 роки тому +1

    My uncle a lorry driver from Pakistan came to the UK in the 80s and worked as a lorry driver in the UK back when lorries had more freedom on the roads of UK but over the years he told me the job has become stressful as rules of the road changed and developed.many no go zones for lorries and speed traps increased on roads mainly London which has the most speeds traps such as the A13 dual carriageway where speed limit is 50 then suddenly goes down to 40 and 30.

  • @CaptHotah
    @CaptHotah 2 роки тому +7

    Respect to all lorry drivers. I could never do that job but i know how important it is

  • @adelshiraz5782
    @adelshiraz5782 2 роки тому +36

    Atleast NHS is getting £350 mil every week.

    • @911HRW
      @911HRW 2 роки тому +3

      Oh a poor butthurt remoaner STILL dragging this on. So sad

    • @adelshiraz5782
      @adelshiraz5782 2 роки тому +14

      @@911HRW oh my butt do hurt when I’m lied to, over and over again. The list is long and Someone like you whose unaware of the reality will say I’m moaning again.

    • @billpugh58
      @billpugh58 2 роки тому +5

      Hahahahahahahaha nah mate, the brexys gave all that (30 billion) to Dido Harding:) and Johnson’s donor mates…….

    • @madrockon7357
      @madrockon7357 2 роки тому +6

      @@911HRW *Denial is the first stage of grief.* It's ok. We understand.

    • @911HRW
      @911HRW 2 роки тому +1

      @@madrockon7357 Denial? 😂😂😂. 48% of grown adults whining 6 years after a done deal? And you talk to me about denial? 😂😂😂😂

  • @rickjamesb.
    @rickjamesb. 2 роки тому +1

    I used to live and work in England (little town called Kirkby near Liverpool) back in 2007 and while on a night shift in late 2007 I read an article in a magazine. It was about how Europe (then including England) would be short well over 100.000 lorry drivers by 2015 and that the pay for this job would go through the roof. For a short while I thought of becoming a lorry driver lol. I never forgot about that article and how true it's been. I assume the shortage is way worse now. Hats off to this beautiful strong lady 🎩

  • @Stone1108
    @Stone1108 2 роки тому +1

    Thank you Helen and all of our drivers. Please do t think we don’t appreciate what you do and go through because most do. Now services in the UK for this industry’s drivers really must be improved. We can’t even look after our own let alone visa drivers, where are all the rainbows in windows for these guys. Let’s get behind them, just not on the road in the wet!!

  • @coronacrisis2.0
    @coronacrisis2.0 2 роки тому +49

    (Almost) everyone hates driving in the UK, except tractor drivers ..who (almost) everyone hates

    • @guleiro
      @guleiro 2 роки тому +6

      That's true... UK motorways are confusing, confuse signaling and too much speed control cameras...
      In continental Europe driving is more relaxed...

    • @aloh5613
      @aloh5613 2 роки тому +3

      And caravans 😉

    • @steve-fc6mc
      @steve-fc6mc 2 роки тому +7

      Lorry drivers dont hate tractor drivers.
      Tractor drivers and lorry drivers both hate:
      Fat lazy school run women wearing pyjamas, driving kids to school when they could walk them.
      And long term unemployed people that should not be allowed to own cars!

    • @jonneilsmyth9107
      @jonneilsmyth9107 2 роки тому

      @@steve-fc6mc but wot iff u needa car steve an uve got no weggs or your a spastic that likes driving wound n wound in circles how we ment to get about ?

    • @andrewjones-productions
      @andrewjones-productions 2 роки тому +5

      @Corona Crisis: So you hate the equipment used by farmers who are producing food to put on your pitiful table. Let me tell you quite bluntly that farmers hate stupid little gormless townies that park in front of farm and field gates because they somehow think that they have the right to do so.

  • @johnwright9372
    @johnwright9372 2 роки тому +30

    The drivers, indeed all working people , need to get into unions and fight back against neoliberal economics which has lowered their pay and conditions for so long.

    • @skunkw16
      @skunkw16 2 роки тому

      You do realise that it will make all your products more expensive, while your salary will remain the same...

    • @grahamstevenson1740
      @grahamstevenson1740 2 роки тому +3

      @@skunkw16 You mean paying people properly will increase prices ? It sort of works like that ! You're not wrong.

    • @guillermoperis1673
      @guillermoperis1673 2 роки тому +2

      @@skunkw16 Fine. Brace for indefinite shortages.

    • @payubandith2929
      @payubandith2929 2 роки тому +1

      @@guillermoperis1673
      Drivers want a pay rise whilst in turn contributing to massive inflation of food and energy prices. They are keeping it the same for themselves whilst screwing workers below them such as warehouse operatives and loaders who without them - they would have no load to haul in the first instance and will be not receiving any pay rises.
      But selfish as HGV drivers usually are, that will not cross their mind nor trouble them in any way.

  • @JonathanXLindqviust
    @JonathanXLindqviust 2 роки тому +46

    "All new, unfair rules"--- No. These were the rules every other country in the world had to abide by to export goods into the EU, it's just that the UK now is a country outside of it. Competitive free market.

  • @Strider9655
    @Strider9655 2 роки тому +6

    They didn't think about who would do the "dirty" jobs, when they lowered the bar to get more young people into -university- debt.

  • @martinjp1
    @martinjp1 2 роки тому +47

    The industry bears a lot of the blame for the shortage, most are unwilling to train drivers up they want a qualified driver today but not willing to do it themselves.

    • @martinjp1
      @martinjp1 2 роки тому +5

      @@donmab I'm a LGV driver, yes you need to be qualified, to become qualified you have to pay upwards of £1500 just for class 2 then the same again for class 1 so £3000 total just to pass the test that is not the governments fault (lots of things are but not this) then when you apply for jobs they want 2 years worth of references, how exactly do you get experience if no one will give it you? obviously now you can walk into a lot of places because of the shortage but that is going to mean a lot of inexperienced drivers on the road.

    • @Stabby666
      @Stabby666 2 роки тому +6

      You can't "train drivers up" like you can with other industries. They either have a license, or they don't. You could take inexperienced drivers on, but you're likely to have vastly increased insurance and damage to vehicles and goods, not to mention missed time slots. I used to work in logistics, and drove all over Europe for around 5 years. Another thing is the terrible state of UK truck stops - it's abysmal compared to Europe. If you try to save money (around £50 for parking and food in a UK stop) by parking on the side of the road, you're likely to have the trailer slashed , diesel stolen, and possbily a £100 fine from the police. Why would anyone want to live that life any more? Brexit has of course fucked things up beyond belief for JIT deliveries too.

    • @nauxsi
      @nauxsi 2 роки тому

      There is a shortage. It's understandable they want someone experienced right away. I'm sure they understand the need to train drivers but there are challenges to that.

    • @garyspruce7736
      @garyspruce7736 2 роки тому +1

      @@martinjp1 they can't have two years experience for everyone, it's not logical. Everyone has to start somewhere, it's up to the hauliers to sort out how they go about it for their companies future.

    • @JaidenJimenez86
      @JaidenJimenez86 2 роки тому

      There's only a few companies able to do this. The small family firm I drive for literally does not have the money to train drivers every year.

  • @JM-yl3lf
    @JM-yl3lf 2 роки тому +3

    Thank you to this lady and also to all the other truck drivers that bring us the goods we need. I must admit I never new how bad it was for you being on the road. Nowhere to park and the cost of going into services. Again a really big thank you

  • @woody8981
    @woody8981 2 роки тому +18

    Brexit red tape has messed this country up it’s so funny that people voted for it

    • @BK-hp6fv
      @BK-hp6fv 2 роки тому +1

      Ssshhhh its nothing to do with Brexit 🤥

    • @philipstokes2824
      @philipstokes2824 2 роки тому +2

      No we're just outside the EU's mess of red tape specifically designed as an anti free competition measure, the shortage of drivers has been a long time coming due to low wages and put conditions covered up by employers undercutting UK workers with cheap foreign labour.

    • @asensibleyoungman2978
      @asensibleyoungman2978 2 роки тому

      It was the EU saturating the UK with drivers prepared to be paid peanuts that caused the problem.

    • @BK-hp6fv
      @BK-hp6fv 2 роки тому +1

      @@asensibleyoungman2978 yeah cause the UK had loads of people just dying to drive trucks

  • @sharonwashington8150
    @sharonwashington8150 2 роки тому +5

    The doughnuts are in the government buildings. And I take my hat of to this smashing lady who is making a superb effort for us under extreme difficulties that she has to encounter along the way.

  • @Arazhul12
    @Arazhul12 2 роки тому +55

    My question is why Germany needs Doughnuts from Leeds? How could anybody make money with this load anyway? 🤔

    • @Robbedem
      @Robbedem 2 роки тому +47

      It's because in todays world, most products are made in very large quantities by big expensive machines.
      This allows those products to be produced very cheap.
      The downside is, that it requires more transporting of those produced goods to where they are needed.
      But those costs are often still lower than having higher production costs. (this mainly depends on fuel costs though)
      In this particular example, those donuts likely cost somewhere like 0,10£ to produce per donut.
      Let's estimate that a truck carries 10 000 donuts and it costs 1000£ in labour, fuel, truck mainenance, etc... for transport.
      (2 day trip)
      So that's another 0,10£ per donut.
      If those donut's are sold for 0,5£ each => 3000£ profit for that one trip.

    • @vereferreus5262
      @vereferreus5262 2 роки тому +28

      Well they were filled with cream when they left, and come with cheese when they arrive....

    • @BritishFreedom
      @BritishFreedom 2 роки тому +8

      Doughnuts from Leeds are the best doughnuts in the World... I thought everybody knew that.

    • @olmostgudinaf8100
      @olmostgudinaf8100 2 роки тому +30

      Don't worry, Arazhul. The Germans will soon figure out that they DON'T need doughnuts from Leeds. They will buy them from Poland instead. And then - another British business goes down the drain and an EU business profits. The inevitable consequence of Brexit.

    • @PedroConejo1939
      @PedroConejo1939 2 роки тому +9

      @@olmostgudinaf8100 Personally, I'd source my doughnuts from Denmark if I still lived in Germany.

  • @becoming.andreia
    @becoming.andreia 2 роки тому +65

    Finally, a journalism piece that shows it as it is. Leave it to 4 to actually point out the bs. As usual, the Tories took the stupidity to a whole new level.

    • @heliotropezzz333
      @heliotropezzz333 2 роки тому +2

      The government plans to privatise channel 4 as it doesn't like hearing the truth.

    • @goatlps
      @goatlps 2 роки тому +4

      Apart from the UK-hating agenda in the title, when her first words are saying she loves her job! Also, the EU rules are shown to be a problem, yet the piece allows people to assume it's due to 'Brexit'.

    • @goatlps
      @goatlps 2 роки тому +1

      They don't trust our food production standards, but trust our 'vets' to know about food - LOL! I'm guessing the vet was a UK national, and the factory has passed inspections - it's all a waste of time and money. But everyone has to continue the UK self-hating bitterness because the vote to leave the EU was carried. Move on.

    • @Sam-sc6rr
      @Sam-sc6rr 2 роки тому +7

      @@goatlps Thats some fantastic mental gymnastic there.
      No, its not the EU it is brexit. If you're in the EU those don't have to be done because they would be compliant with EU regs.
      The EU has a right to put standards on products entering its market, don't like em? don't send your business there its pretty simple.

    • @heliotropezzz333
      @heliotropezzz333 2 роки тому +8

      @@goatlps It is due to Brexit. The current rules are the ones that apply to any third country that is not in the EU. The UK is not in the EU. In fact UK has a more favourable position than most 3rd countries as it has a deal with the EU that avoids tariffs. Without that tariffs would be added to all this bureaucracy and customs duties. It amazes me that Brexiteers are surprised by the rules that apply to 3rd countries. They could have looked this up at any time in the last 5 years.

  • @flyingpanhandle
    @flyingpanhandle 2 роки тому +3

    A wild wee. Love it. I used to be a Postman. I used to keep a 1l lucozade bucket in my van and climb into the back if I needed a wee. I would be distraught if someone removed it from my van.

  • @ishabrown
    @ishabrown 2 роки тому

    This woman is truly dedicated to her job, amazing missing out on family time as well, i hope the driver shortage situation gets sorted soon so she doesn't have to work such long hrs

  • @seamusmaguidhir6523
    @seamusmaguidhir6523 2 роки тому +20

    thanks for doing it Helen, sorry your treated so badly. People don't understand the hard work that goes into making life easy.

  • @davidjames2910
    @davidjames2910 2 роки тому +21

    What a lot of hassle caused to a hardworking person who is helping all of us, all because a load of people were told this wouldn't happen by a bunch of liars who promptly made it happen.

  • @AlAbbasi_2007
    @AlAbbasi_2007 2 роки тому

    Respect. Nothing but respect for Helen & her fellow lorry drivers.

  • @danielparker1540
    @danielparker1540 2 роки тому

    What solider ,massive respect to her and all her colleagues behind the wheel

  • @eekamoose
    @eekamoose 2 роки тому +11

    Dirty and expensive. The UK in 2021 in a nutshell.

  • @martinr3281
    @martinr3281 2 роки тому +16

    Uk donuts taking 2 days to get to Germany and extra costs vets….. how long do u think it’s going to take for that German purchaser to drop UK supplier in favour of an EU supplier ?
    How many UK jobs will that cost ?

    • @persopolish3212
      @persopolish3212 2 роки тому +4

      at least UK get back control... oh wait..................

    • @jonsid6628
      @jonsid6628 2 роки тому +2

      The same applies in the other direction obviously.

    • @neodym5809
      @neodym5809 2 роки тому +11

      @@jonsid6628 not really. UK pork industry is currently crashing, same for poultry. Where do you think the meat will be coming from instead?
      EU
      Uk farmers decided to plant less next year due to worker shortages. Where do you think the food will come from instead?
      EU
      List goes on.

    • @jonsid6628
      @jonsid6628 2 роки тому +3

      @@neodym5809 No, the list doesn't go on. Your obsession however, does.

    • @cakeisyummy5755
      @cakeisyummy5755 2 роки тому

      Benelux and France will run out of Unemployed people at this Rate....

  • @FoodAndDrinkUK
    @FoodAndDrinkUK 2 роки тому +2

    The services I’ve stayed at have been okay in regards to showers (moto services) however the food is a big problem, it’s either Burger King or spending £10 for a sandwich and crisps at whsmiths

  • @finntran1672
    @finntran1672 2 роки тому +3

    Imagine if your job is an ENDLESS commute. If you think driving an hour to work is horrible, people like her has to spend 2-3 days on the road. COVID-19 has shown how crucial these essential workers are, yet the classist Brits still fails to appreciate them

  • @patrickcarnson1919
    @patrickcarnson1919 2 роки тому +52

    I have two words for Hellen. Respect and wonder woman. Stay safe, and keep on trucking.

    • @ArcadeStunfisk
      @ArcadeStunfisk 2 роки тому +9

      That’s ten words.

    • @jeremypeanutbutter6560
      @jeremypeanutbutter6560 2 роки тому +1

      @@ArcadeStunfisk Read properly ...2 are for Helen... You can take the rest if you want.

    • @another_day4783
      @another_day4783 2 роки тому

      all HGV drivers

    • @peterthomas5792
      @peterthomas5792 2 роки тому

      @@jeremypeanutbutter6560 3...

    • @peterthomas5792
      @peterthomas5792 2 роки тому

      Which of 'wonder' and 'woman' are you choosing to retain? Or are you ditching the 'respect' ??? Counting isn't hard...

  • @Eyyoh755
    @Eyyoh755 2 роки тому +82

    Leaving the EU was a stupid idea!

    • @minimax9452
      @minimax9452 2 роки тому +18

      we told you so 🇩🇪🇪🇺

    • @muhammaduddin9268
      @muhammaduddin9268 2 роки тому +2

      What about immigration,too many immigrants from EU countries in UK due to remaining in EU.Explain that?

    • @Censorshift
      @Censorshift 2 роки тому +2

      Not being self sufficient was a stupid idea

    • @Sam-sc6rr
      @Sam-sc6rr 2 роки тому +4

      @@muhammaduddin9268 Any country inside the EU can enforce immigrations rules.
      What did France do when the UK (still in the EU) had a new strain of COVID - THEY BLOCKED UK RESIDENTS COMING INTO FRANCE.
      The UK does not enforce its immigrations, why? I dunno to keep low IQ people afraid of "DeM ImIgRuNtZ"

    • @minimax9452
      @minimax9452 2 роки тому +1

      @@Censorshift Cuba and North Korea are self sufficient

  • @danternas
    @danternas 2 роки тому +1

    Coming from Sweden to the UK I can say the difference is worlds apart. And I don't even live in a heavily populated area like London. Not just is there way more traffic, which is unavoidable, but the road planning itself is under-dimensioned and plagued by old ideas and influences. Instead of making intersections based on high flow where cars follow lanes, slip lanes and bypasses so that they never need to stop the UK main roads are filled with TRAFFIC LIGHTS. In the middle of a busy dual carriage way: Traffic lights. In a roundabout? Traffic lights. Not to mention the small streets riddled with cars parked absolutely everywhere. It is hard enough to get pass in a car, let alone an HGV.

  • @salus1231
    @salus1231 2 роки тому +5

    I never knew we were that bad. The Haulage industry is stuck in a 1970's mindset like the famous
    trucker scene in not the 9oclock news

  • @aliahmadi1600
    @aliahmadi1600 2 роки тому +14

    I give it up hgv driving 8 years ago and I am 32 now to be honest the money pay you is so low 😒😒😒😒

    • @rfsalad4118
      @rfsalad4118 2 роки тому +1

      They pay well in Canada.

    • @gardenjoy5223
      @gardenjoy5223 2 роки тому +1

      @@rfsalad4118 Who would want to live in Canada nowadays? If it wasn't for Jordan Peterson, you'd be speaking gender-gibberish or be fined forever.

  • @JCO2002
    @JCO2002 2 роки тому +11

    They used to have an empire. Now, nothing but a crowded, dirty, dysfunctional, little island. Oh how the mighty have fallen.

    • @PedroConejo1939
      @PedroConejo1939 2 роки тому +2

      All empires fall but no-one wants to believe it when they're building them.

    • @areyouserious3092
      @areyouserious3092 2 роки тому +3

      Don't talk about Cyprus like that.

    • @larrydickman5936
      @larrydickman5936 2 роки тому +1

      Leave Australia out of this!

    • @matty6848
      @matty6848 2 роки тому

      Well it’s a good job you don’t live in the U.K then. What mighty fine nation do you live in?

    • @madrockon7357
      @madrockon7357 2 роки тому +2

      @@matty6848 Could be anywhere in Western Europe and you would still be better off than living in England. Lol!

  • @donnykaraoke1
    @donnykaraoke1 2 роки тому +2

    I've considered HGV driving, but after watching this I don't think I'll bother

  • @kennedyochiengobat
    @kennedyochiengobat 2 роки тому

    I salute you Hellen. Very strong, carougeus and above all hardworking.

  • @randunufdo1
    @randunufdo1 2 роки тому +9

    It's really heart breaking to see what these guys go through and then not even have decent toilets and showers the UK really needs to clean up its act when it comes to providing amenities to HGV drivers or else in a few years time there will be no more truckers in this country

  • @Thegreat772
    @Thegreat772 2 роки тому +10

    Im a lorry driver and count myself lucky that I've benefited from higher wages and I work a 40hr week on average. Gotta say its about time our wages went up.

    • @matty6848
      @matty6848 2 роки тому

      Chest a truck driver who only works 40 hours a week? That’s practically unheard of. What are you class 1 or 2 or do you have both? I’ll take a job at your place any day if I can earn good money just driving 40 hours a week.

    • @brownjatt21
      @brownjatt21 2 роки тому

      How much do you get paid if you don't mind me asking, I'm a Trucker from America myself interested to see the rates. And is it by mile? Flat rate to certain cities.

    • @MRFUCKOFF202
      @MRFUCKOFF202 2 роки тому

      @@matty6848 If there's a shortage on and you're not penniless, you should be able to just refuse to work longer. Do you think they'd rather have no driver at all than one doing only 40 hours? Worst case scenario it should be easy to join another company.

  • @Pickchore
    @Pickchore 2 роки тому +7

    Being TOLD things WILL get worse before Christmas is not good enough.
    It's a manufactured shortage and it shouldn't be happening.
    The buggers are grinding us down and we're letting them.

    • @behemoththekitty
      @behemoththekitty 2 роки тому +1

      Your paranoid conspiracy theory is folding in on itself.

    • @Pickchore
      @Pickchore 2 роки тому

      @@behemoththekitty - A manufactured shortage is entirely plausible.
      You trust the government too much.
      If the government was an individual and that individual was a friend of yours you would no longer trust them after their lies and deceit were proven.
      Why do you trust them so much?
      Do you work for the government?
      Maybe a member of the 77th Brigade?

    • @IRACEMABABU
      @IRACEMABABU 2 роки тому

      @@Pickchore I think he was speaking of all paranoia involved with brexit, with UE as the worse vilain.... Now you get what you have voted for. Good luck.

    • @Pickchore
      @Pickchore 2 роки тому

      @@IRACEMABABU - I didn't vote to leave nor did I vote Tory.
      Keep your presumptuous "good luck".

    • @IRACEMABABU
      @IRACEMABABU 2 роки тому

      @@Pickchore Funny. YOU evidently was referring to your country who voted the Brexit. Your reaction shows that there's finally no surprise with what's happening ... some of you (!) have some trouble to get it.... LOL

  • @judithjanneck1719
    @judithjanneck1719 2 роки тому

    2:15 Die you really zoom in and pause for a second on the worker with migration background? Savage haha

  • @martinbennett2228
    @martinbennett2228 2 роки тому +94

    Germany and other countries obviously do make their own doughnuts, but UK ones have been competitive. Unfortunately, we can see that the competitive edge has been blunted by Brexit. Nonetheless, against the odds a UK company still manages to sell to the EU, but many others will have given up.

    • @adamabele785
      @adamabele785 2 роки тому +8

      It is less about competition but more about giving customer different choices. So the manufacturer in one country also delivers to the retailer in another country because they have focused on other products that have higher demand in their area. Its not that they can not do it, or can not do it at the same price, but the other product is not their focus. Germany produces enough beer and exports a lot, but still other countries sell beer to Germany, just because the consumer likes the choice of different brands, not because it is cheaper or better.

    • @minimax9452
      @minimax9452 2 роки тому +21

      we told you so 🇩🇪🇪🇺

    • @rww805
      @rww805 2 роки тому +4

      @@minimax9452 no mate, you said brexit would be a disaster. It is not a disaster. Apparently, Germany is still buying donuts from us.

    • @minimax9452
      @minimax9452 2 роки тому +43

      @@rww805 Your exports to the EU dropped about 16% our exports to GB have risen 7%. enjoy your donuts.

    • @rww805
      @rww805 2 роки тому +5

      @@minimax9452 fastest growing economy in the G7.
      Why is a German so invested in the Brexit argument? What's in it for you? It is odd how the remaining EU members are so upset about us leaving. It's almost as if they needed us or something.

  • @CT-pv9gu
    @CT-pv9gu 2 роки тому +4

    Finally a lorry driver with a good attitude! We need more of her

    • @user-mn5ov4si1o
      @user-mn5ov4si1o 10 місяців тому

      And what do you know having never done the job...... Usual car driver trying nonsense.... Attitude you say you and your car driving selfish and arrogant snobs wouldn't last an hour dealing with yourselves on the road everyday 😅😅😅

  • @Bokoyo
    @Bokoyo 2 роки тому +1

    Thank you channel 4 for not turning off the comments unlike BBC.

  • @markpeters9452
    @markpeters9452 2 роки тому +1

    Recently quit this occupation due to the number of hours you are expected to work . Some people don’t want 50 plus hours every week

  • @garethwynn01
    @garethwynn01 2 роки тому +15

    I wonder what we do actually value in the UK because we have roads that are either like dirt tracks or are so congested that it takes hours to get anywhere. I hate driving now even just on short journeys in my local area so I can't imagine how tough it is to drive large vehicles for long hours on those roads with little in the way of facilities when you do get a break.

    • @benghiskahn3673
      @benghiskahn3673 2 роки тому +4

      Posh accents. That's what we value. We value posh accents so much that we'll literally vote posh accent thieves into power election after election despite the fact things are getting worse and worse year after year and it's largely down to those posh accent thieves being true to their thieving nature. But they have posh accents, so we let them have at it again and again and then blame people with foreign accents for all our problems.

    • @garethwynn01
      @garethwynn01 2 роки тому +1

      @@benghiskahn3673 yes always better to be done over by a posh guy in a nice suit.

    • @johnmitchell2269
      @johnmitchell2269 2 роки тому +1

      Cheap $hite 🤣 that's what we value. Cheap $hite made in China, Taiwan, Turkey and Vietnam.

    • @yodab.at1746
      @yodab.at1746 2 роки тому +2

      I ride a motorcycle 35 hours a week. For terrible pay. And the roads could actually kill me, let alone aggressive drivers. The UK sucks. It sucks the life out of you.

    • @davidusoh8203
      @davidusoh8203 2 роки тому

      What's so special about UK?i'm a trucker in Germany nd i can never leave here for England cos they're too proud but in reality they've got nothing. Bad motorways etc.

  • @TheWitchInTheWoods
    @TheWitchInTheWoods 2 роки тому +7

    why are we shipping doughnuts and frozen milkshakes around?? two days for a doughnut to arrive?? Is it me, or is the world so entirely insane that it beggars belief?

    • @grahamstevenson1740
      @grahamstevenson1740 2 роки тому +2

      You're not wrong. The world is quite insane. Green beans from Africa too, flown in by jet and avocados from South America. You couldn't make it up. I've started growing my own fruit & veg. It's the only sensible answer. My tomatoes in the garden are still ripening thanks to climate change ! Really, they are in mid-October.

    • @clairelemonnier4226
      @clairelemonnier4226 2 роки тому

      @@grahamstevenson1740 ... and "one of the foods we are missing in the U.K." Frozen milkshakes!! For Gawd's sake!!

    • @grahamstevenson1740
      @grahamstevenson1740 2 роки тому

      @@clairelemonnier4226 I said nothing about milkshakes. Don't really like them much, don't buy them. Maybe you should save your comments for those who do want them ? BTW, it's called 'trade'. Essential for an 'economy' !

    • @TheWitchInTheWoods
      @TheWitchInTheWoods 2 роки тому +1

      @@grahamstevenson1740 I know, exactly. And the blame comes our way for driving into town, or leaving our lights on or whatever.. meanwhile we're supposed to fret about a shortage of pumpkins!... It's a mess innit...??

    • @grahamstevenson1740
      @grahamstevenson1740 2 роки тому +1

      @@TheWitchInTheWoods Who actually NEEDS those damned pumpkins anyway ? Leave them to rot I say. A friend of mine just showed me some blueberries from Peru btw ! They're large. Back in my youth much produce we ate was locally produced and consumer products were usually made in Britain rather than China. I wonder how much global climate change is due to transporting food and other stuff absurdly long distances ?

  • @R.U.1.2.
    @R.U.1.2. 2 роки тому +1

    Yeah, well, Mom said to stay in school. I drove heavy-duty trucks, coupled with heavy-duty labor for twenty years. We worked 12-14/15 hours per day, a minimum of 6 days a week, many times 7 days per week. With all the overtime hours included, I did very well monetarily. It was dull and repetitive most of the time, and I eventually found a better job, but at much less pay. Soooo. what's the beef? ...A. You got a job...B' You make lots of money. Are there hassles? Of course, there are, in every line of work, so, either do it, or upgrade your education, or learn a new career or go on unemployment insurance or learn to be quiet and accepting.

  • @a320nick
    @a320nick Рік тому

    Good reportage👍

  • @norseko
    @norseko 2 роки тому +9

    Respect to the lady driver.

  • @PEdulis
    @PEdulis 2 роки тому +31

    Thanks for doing your job anyway and with passion apparently.

  • @kristofferhellstrom
    @kristofferhellstrom 2 роки тому

    What a trooper! And she looks great! Keep it up and good luck!

  • @trommelbiel
    @trommelbiel 2 роки тому

    There is now shortage of everything in the UK but the best the home office could come up with was the share code in order to make it even more difficult to fill those vacancies.