Roadmap to sanity
Oct 13, 2021
4 minutes
Michael Kaine
TO DESCRIBE the last 20 months as frustrating for drivers would be the world’s biggest understatement. Christmas-like demand every single week has pushed drivers to their very limits, and the extraordinary pressure from companies at the top of supply chains to keep goods moving isn’t slowing down.
The pandemic has only made wealthy supermarkets, retailers, manufacturers and oil companies tighten their deadly squeeze on the industry. It has forced transport operators and owner-drivers to run on the whiff of an oily rag and cut standing and running costs below what is fair and sustainable. And the pandemic has also exposed the tsunami-like threat of gig economy
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