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Mar 31, 2016

TRAFFIC TROUBLES * Nepal

* Salyan - Stranded trucks 
(Picture: Not only in the Detroit–Windsor bridge trucks they are delayed, also in Nepal, although intersections do not have the modern structure between USA and Canada)

 -- Trucks waiting at Sallibazar of Salyan on Tuesday to cross the Bheri River. A ferry service has remained closed for the past 10 days after developing a leak. These trucks bring vital supplies to Jajarkot district...
Salli Bazar, Salyan, Nepal - My Republica, by Janak KC - 30 Mar 2016

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Aug 29, 2015

MIGRANT CRISIS * France / UK: Truckers suffer intimidation and violence - ** Austria-Hungary: 50 deaths in a truck

* England - Firms dig in for the long haul as they count cost of migrant crisis

-- Intimidation, threats of violence, spoilt goods and missed deliveries resulting in spiralling costs – all things Yorkshire drivers and haulage firms are having to deal with on an almost daily basis owing to the migrant crisis in Calais... Nidd Transport, which is based near Ripon, North Yorkshire, sends four or five trucks a night through the Eurotunnel... Its drivers have suffered intimidation by migrants in Calais and have had goods ruined by stowaways who manage to make their way into the back of lorries, and it has had to absorb significant costs of re-routing loads through northern ports to ensure customers’ needs are filled. Commercial director Steve Curtis said: “This has been going on since May" ... Over recent weeks, thousands of migrants have to attempted to get to the Channel Tunnel, and an estimated 5,000 migrants from countries including Syria, Libya and Eritrea are believed to be camped in and around the port...  The delays put on haulage firms bringing in freight from continental Europe have a knock-on effect on other Yorkshire firms... 
(Image: An estimated 5,000 migrants from countries including Syria, Libya and Eritrea camped iaround the port, to get to the Channel Tunnel)  --  Calais, France / Yorkshire, EN, UK - The Yorkshire Post - 15 August 2015


* Austria-Hungary border - Dozens of decomposing refugee bodies found in truck

-- Dozens of dead refugees have been found in the back of a lorry in Austria, in another incident in a spate tragedies involving desperate migrants embarking on the perilous journey to Europe in search of a better life... The vehicle, belonging to a food company, was parked on the hard shoulder of a highway near the eastern town of Parndorf, not far from the border with Hungary and Slovakia... The truck, with Hungarian license plates, was spotted by staff at a nearby service station who became suspicious when it had not moved for a long time, Krone newspaper reported. Police were called to the scene and made the grim discovery... Authorities said that according to an early assessment the lorry had become a 'grave' for between 20 and 50 people, believed to have died of asphyxiation... A police official told broadcaster ORF the refugees had been dead for some time, as some corpses appeared to be partially decomposed... 
(Photo by DIETER NAGL/AFP/Getty Images - Forensic officers stand in front of truck believed to contain large number of dead migrants on a motorway in Austria)  --  Parndorf, Hungary - IBT, by Umberto Bacchi - August 27, 2015

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Jun 26, 2014

TRUCKING INDUSTRY NEWS * Turkey / Syria

* Turkey pays steep price now for letting jihadis into Syria

(Photo, by ANDREA BRUCE / THE NEW YORK TIMES - Truck drivers wait in a long line to cross the border into Iraq from Turkey, though some trucking companies have stopped transporting goods into Iraq since 31 truckers were kidnapped in Mosul) Habur Border Gate, Turkey -The New York Times (USA), by Ben Hubbard and Ceylan Yeginsu -June 25, 2014: -- In normal times, hauling 50,000 pounds of frozen chicken into Iraq is a routine job for Turfan Aydin, a Turkish trucker who has been working the route for years. But the cross-border trade has suddenly all but halted, locked up by the insurgent offensive in Iraq and the kidnapping of 80 Turkish citizens... Once this border was wide open, as Turkey allowed rebel groups of any stripe easy access to the battlefields in Syria in an effort to topple President Bashar Assad. But that created fertile ground in Syria for the development of the Sunni militant group that launched a blitzkrieg in Iraq this month, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)... The kidnappings have terrified communities that rely on cross-border trade. Doruklu, a village of 1,300 people where some residents still live in mud-brick homes and most men become truckers as soon as they reach adulthood, counts four men among the captive truckers...

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Aug 3, 2012

TRUCKING & TRUCKERS TROUBLES * Australia

* Australia - Retailers warned of unrealistic demands on truck drivers

Sydney,NSW,Australia -The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), by Rachel Olding -August 1, 2012: -- Road safety investigators have warned major retailers such as Coles that they may end up before a court for placing unrealistic demands on transport companies and encouraging drivers to drive dangerously... A three-day crackdown on rogue truck drivers, the fourth in six months, ended yesterday with police and Roads and Maritime Services investigators finding more evidence that speed limiter tampering is still rife in the trucking industry... Since February, 50 trucks with illegally modified speed limiters have been found travelling on the roads, sometimes at up to 142km/h... Speed limiters, which prevent a truck from travelling above 100km/h, are a legal requirement in heavy vehicles... Under ''chain of responsibility'' laws, more than 1000 charges have been laid against the directors and managers of four trucking companies - Lennons, Scotts of Mt Gambier, Damorange and Fred's Transport - whose drivers have been caught flouting the law since February...

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Apr 26, 2010

TRUCKING TROUBLES * Ireland - 200 hauliers out of business

Dublin,Ireland -HGV Ireland -April 23, 2010: -- An estimated 200 road haulage companies have failed or ceased trading in the past 12 months with rising fuel prices and the recently introduced carbon tax driving dozens more haulage businesses to the brink of closure, the Irish Road Haulage Association (IRHA) has revealed... Rising fuel costs and other difficulties facing the road haulage industry will be debated in detail this weekend when hundreds of road hauliers converge on the Galway Bay Hotel, Salthill for the Association’s Annual Conference... The conference is expected to hear angry calls from delegates for the Association to step up its opposition to the introduction of the carbon tax which has increased the cost of diesel by five cent per litre, on top of a five cent excise duty increase in the previous Budget... The Association, which is the representative body for the Irish road transport industry, estimates that the carbon tax and rising fuel costs have increased the cost of a typical trip from Drogheda to Cork by as much as €40...

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Feb 24, 2010

TRUCKING TROUBLES * Europe - IRU unhappy with Greek strikes

Geneva,Switzerland -HGV UK -February 22, 2010: -- The International Road Transport Union is (IRU) deeply concerned by the dramatic consequences for international trade and road transport of the prolonged social conflict caused by the impact of the world economic crisis on Greece... Over the last few weeks, the farmers’ strike has blocked roads and border crossing points in an often changing and chaotic pattern, making cargo, trucks and drivers idle at border crossing points for days. Regrettably, due to the strike action extending to other sectors of the Greek economy, there is no prospect that blockades will end soon...
The IRU has protested to the Greek Minister of Infrastructure, Transport and Networks, Dimitris Reppas, against this unacceptable situation and has taken daily contact with the responsible services of the European Commission, pressing them to ensure the re-establishment of the freedom of transit across Greek borders and territory in accordance with EU law and international conventions... (Photo above from emergent-culture: Greek farmer tractors - Photo below from news.sky: Trucks queue to get through the border into Bulgaria)

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May 20, 2009

Economic Crisis * Ireland - IRU addresses EU transport attachés on

The number of bankruptcies in the European road transport sector has doubled in the past year, according to the International Road Transport Union

Dublin,Ireland -HGV -20 May 2009: -- ... IRU General Delegate to the EU, Michael Nielsen, addressed Europe's transport attachés last week and stressed that the time to act to minimise the impact of the economic crisis on the road transport sector is now... Nielsen said that 140,000 jobs have been lost in the EU and the number of newly registered vehicles has fallen by 36 per cent while 72 per cent of companies expect continued reductions in jobs, turnover and profit margins... Participants agreed that the European Commission must act swiftly to mitigate the impacts of the crisis on the EU road transport sector... (Photo from roadtransport: Quinn's cement truck Ireland)


* Romania - There will be many bankruptcies in the road transport business

Bucarest,Romania - RBT -(Originally published) 11 Sept 2007: -- The reputed businessman Dragos Anastasiu, the chairman of the Romanian Private Land Carriers’ Association (Asociatia Carausilor Particulari, in Romanian) is convinced that the lack of the management and technologies is the greatest drawback for the native road transport operators... At the same time, he estimates that, in this activity field there will be many bankruptcies, coupled with market consolidation...

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Jan 3, 2009

Port congestion * Nigeria - Blamed on business as usual syndrome

Lagos,Nigeria -The Punch, by Sulaiman Adenekan -2 Jan 2009: -- Two years after several port terminals in Lagos were concessioned to private operators, Port congestion is still the order of the day, making government’s target of achieving clearance of goods within 48 hours a mirage... Outdated legislation, equipment shortages, epileptic power supply, unreliable information technology infrastructure, failure to streamline the activities of security agencies and a pervasive culture of dishonesty by port users are reasons why the 48-hour cargo clearance target remain unachievable at the nation’s seaports... Investigations by our correspondent showed that terminal operators, shipping companies, importers and the Customs are all losers in the confusion that still characterise port operations in Nigeria... (Photo: Apapa ports quay side)

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