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Originally Posted by Hugh
Seriously?
Most vans delivery delivers use can be driven with a standard drivers licence - HGVs, not so much; and a reasonable number of them just use cars for deliveries.
If you can’t tell that a parcel delivery driver isn’t the same as an HGV driver, then I don’t know what more to say - the difference in manoeuvring/reversing a 44 foot 44 ton articulated lorry and a sprinter van is considerable; that will be why it take 8-10 weeks to get an HGV licence, and the course can cost up to £5,000.
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All of that. Plus the fact that van drivers for online firms are usually home-based whilst HGV drivers usually have to spend some of their week away from home which is an understandable barrier to recruitment.
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Originally Posted by Mr K
So that would be a kind of nationalisation? Services provided for the public benefit, not profit.
It's taken time bit the Tories have slowly coming round to it e.g. the railways ate starting to go that way.
Coupled with the new winter of discontent, rising taxes,
massive debt it's like having a Labour govt without it being called Labour !
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Even Abba have returned to try and convince us that this is the 1970s!
