Re: Tax Rises and Inflation : Economics (not Politics)
Posted: September 9th, 2021, 8:31 pm
tjh290633 wrote:There is a theory that they have gone to Tesco or other companies, where driving a delivery van is much more congenial than driving an HGV. Maybe some have become white van men driving for Amazon and the like.
TJH
Most of the folk delivering stuff to me have being doing it for years, no changes. This does not apply to Amazon who I rarely use, but I assume its similar.
I find all of this strange as nothing seems to have changed and yet there are shortages everywhere.
As I understand it a big HGV is about 40 tonnes carrying capacity and needs a special license.
However, on a standard license I believe one can drive a 3.5 tonne van and for anyone with a license before 1997 a 7.5 tonne van.
So roughly about 6 x 7.5 tonne vans is an HGV and 12 (post 1997 licenses) is an HGV equivalent load.
For critical stuff like hospital supplies could not the driverless HGV be replaced as a short term measure with hired vans. This would be more expensive but it would get critical stuff to hospitals. There are hire companies in most towns who would no doubt be thankful for the business.I realise that this requires politicians to think but surely in an emergency some set of critical supplies could be moved like this.
Or am I missing something such as loads being factory set on pallets and the load/unload being too big an overhead or something else?
Regards,