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Why truck drivers are now forced to take 40-day trips

  • July 8, 2022
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Recently, Russian and Belarusian carriers have lost the opportunity to work in the EU. As a result, in order to save business, many companies began to develop new

Why truck drivers are now forced to take 40-day trips

Recently, Russian and Belarusian carriers have lost the opportunity to work in the EU. As a result, in order to save business, many companies began to develop new routes – and Turkey in the first place. The AvtoVzglyad portal found out how drivers live, that they changed flights to France and Germany in an easterly direction.

Under the new conditions, 40-day flights proved to be the most difficult, director of Belarusian transport company Janstrong Dmitry Vorontsov told World of Heavy Motors publication. On the rides themselves, truckers are most upset by the “Upper Lars” border crossing on the Russian-Georgian border, which is scolded for the long queues for the lack of amenities, when the nearest eating point can be up to 30 kilometers away.

In Turkey, the main obstacle is the language barrier – most customers, employees at border crossings and temporary warehouses only communicate in Turkish. As a result, transport workers have to hire locals who speak Turkish.

In addition, entrepreneurs must give cash to drivers: fuel companies known to Russians and Belarusians are either not present in the Turkish market, or their rates there are too high.

– We can only dream of the profitability of the transport that was in the European direction. Frankly, carriers now work not for the development of companies, but for the retention of teams and rolling stock, Mr. Vorontsov sums up.

By the way, as for the transition “Upper Lars”. The lifted restrictions on access to Georgia through the land border have opened a green corridor for Russian citizens to travel abroad freely by private vehicle. That’s just green, this corridor is just mentioned. In fact, it’s not even red, it’s black. With details – the portal “AvtoVzglyad”.

Under the new conditions, 40-day flights proved to be the most difficult, director of Belarusian transport company Janstrong Dmitry Vorontsov told World of Heavy Motors publication. On the rides themselves, truckers are most upset by the “Upper Lars” border crossing on the Russian-Georgian border, which is scolded for the long queues for the lack of amenities, when the nearest eating point can be up to 30 kilometers away.

In Turkey, the main obstacle is the language barrier – most customers, employees at border crossings and temporary warehouses only communicate in Turkish. As a result, transport workers have to hire locals who speak Turkish.

In addition, entrepreneurs must give cash to drivers: fuel companies known to Russians and Belarusians are either not present in the Turkish market, or their rates there are too high.

– We can only dream of the profitability of the transport that was in the European direction. Frankly, carriers now work not for the development of companies, but for the retention of teams and rolling stock, Mr. Vorontsov sums up.

By the way, as for the transition “Upper Lars”. The lifted restrictions on access to Georgia through the land border have opened a green corridor for Russian citizens to travel abroad freely by private vehicle. That’s just green, this corridor is just mentioned. In fact, it’s not even red, it’s black. With details – the portal “AvtoVzglyad”.

Source: Avto Vzglyad

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