Lorries on the Motorways

Redwurzel

Redwurzel

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Coming upto Teesside on Friday I noticed more lorries on the road than I had ever previously experienced - M5/M42/M1/A1 - it took me 1 hour longer than planned. Very few caravans.

Similar going back last night - less traffic but around 66% of the traffic was lorries. The lorry traffic normally drops off alot after 6pm.

Was this a fluke or has anyone else noticed it?

I can only guess as the economy has picked up there are more deliveries of everything.

Strange though when we are missing 60,000? lorry drivers.
 
I thought the same last week when I drive to Doncaster. Can’t imagine what the roads will be like once all these extra drivers are trained up,
 
I think they have had driving hours extended? That's a recipe for disaster as Tachographs came in for a reason.

F*ck driving a car for 10-12hrs a day never mind a lorry. I can't handle 2 hours of middle lane hoggers😂
 
Extended hours for drivers would explain the extra lorries on the road.

Then I would ask the question why are there so many shortages of food in the shops. It feels like around 20% of the shelves are empty, certainly in Sainsbury's.

A Waitrose I went in this evening had an apology up on the front door about product shortages, they were around 20% down as well. Although LIDL looked pretty fully stocked. I notice LIDL are now paying £10.70/hour for shop workers plus 10% staff discount.
 
We were in Tesco tonight, some shelves were randomly, totally empty, banana's was one. Bread, sort of, last weekend

Time to panic buy? I still have 10 lockdown corned beef tins from March 2020, so I'll survive :ROFLMAO:
 
I see lots of bread thrown out - your average supermarket has too much more than too little. I asked the LIDL staff where were the taking the bread and pastries they throwing into a giant pallet sized deep bucket and they said the bin as it was out of date after 9pm - they always through something out. My local Subway owner said the food banks will not take his left over bread.

My local Co-op is often out of bananas for some reason its been going on for years, especially after 7pm. They seem to be our most popular fruit nowadays.

Didn't Gordon Brown say we waste 20% of our food in this country thats when we get it home, never mind what the shops waste.

The EU/EEC subsidies used to create shocking food wastages, now they pay some farmers/landowners not to produce food with taxes collected from our VAT.
 
Redwurzel said:
I see lots of bread thrown out - your average supermarket has too much more than too little. I asked the LIDL staff where were the taking the bread and pastries they throwing into a giant pallet sized deep bucket and they said the bin as it was out of date after 9pm - they always through something out. My local Subway owner said the food banks will not take his left over bread.

My local Co-op is often out of bananas for some reason its been going on for years, especially after 7pm. They seem to be our most popular fruit nowadays.

Didn't Gordon Brown say we waste 20% of our food in this country thats when we get it home, never mind what the shops waste.

The EU/EEC subsidies used to create shocking food wastages, now they pay some farmers/landowners not to produce food with taxes collected from our VAT.
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We aren't part of the EU.

The food bank I volunteer in used to get unsold bread from three local supermarkets. We haven't had any in 4 months.
 
Redwurzel said:
I see lots of bread thrown out - your average supermarket has too much more than too little. I asked the LIDL staff where were the taking the bread and pastries they throwing into a giant pallet sized deep bucket and they said the bin as it was out of date after 9pm - they always through something out. My local Subway owner said the food banks will not take his left over bread.

My local Co-op is often out of bananas for some reason its been going on for years, especially after 7pm. They seem to be our most popular fruit nowadays.

Didn't Gordon Brown say we waste 20% of our food in this country thats when we get it home, never mind what the shops waste.

The EU/EEC subsidies used to create shocking food wastages, now they pay some farmers/landowners not to produce food with taxes collected from our VAT.
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A lot of our waste is caused by people adhering to the sell-by & shelf-life dates. There was a pogramme on once with a guy going through, with permission, the bins of one of the top supermarkets and recycling the food for the homeless charities. It was amasing what was thrown out and considered unsuitable for consumption.
 
Ebor said:
We were in Tesco tonight, some shelves were randomly, totally empty, banana's was one. Bread, sort of, last weekend

Time to panic buy? I still have 10 lockdown corned beef tins from March 2020, so I'll survive :ROFLMAO:
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Yeah.
I noticed in a few local supermarkets lately that fresh food shelves, including bread and veg, have been empty or very scarce.
Could be coincidence, but its happening in too man places?!
 
I noticed in July that the sell-by dates on fresh products in Tesco were only short. The bread had use-by dates on the following day.

The wife commented on how items had been spread out to make them look like they weren't empty and on other isles, shelves were totally empty. This was just fresh produce, it was also on tinned food isles and things like kitchen rolls were in short supply.
 
It seems strange that it is effecting Sainsburys more than the others, I have been in various different supermarkets over the last month or two and most have had the odd shelf here and there... been in a few Sainsburys both here and on the south coast and it looked like they had been ransacked.
 
Definitely noticed a lot more lorries last few weeks. Unfortunately this has led to a rise in the numpty element of lorry drivers sitting alongside each other, duelling at 50mph on dual carriageways. Get them banned from ever entering the outside lane, barring lane closures.
 
Redwurzel said:
Extended hours for drivers would explain the extra lorries on the road.

Then I would ask the question why are there so many shortages of food in the shops. It feels like around 20% of the shelves are empty, certainly in Sainsbury's.

A Waitrose I went in this evening had an apology up on the front door about product shortages, they were around 20% down as well. Although LIDL looked pretty fully stocked. I notice LIDL are now paying £10.70/hour for shop workers plus 10% staff discount.
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As I understand it, the drivers can extend two of the 9 hour driving days each week to 11 hours instead of 10, so basically 2 extra hours a week (Until early Oct). The working day hasn’t been extended, just driving hours. And then when they have to sit in distributton centres for hours on end waiting to get tipped and loaded, it makes a nonsense of it all. Plus, where the lorries are double/triple shifted, drivers hours makes no difference at all if they are working 8/10 hours to get back to the yard.
 
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