Covid?

Brexit?

Both?

I notice it’s taken McDonald’s to run out of milkshakes for it to actually cause people to lose their shit.

I read that 14,000 EU lorry drivers left jobs in the UK since brexit, and only 600 have returned.

Covid caused loss of tests to be cancelled.

 

7 minutes ago, mickbrown said:

I believe that if you're a certain age, (like what I am) you can drive a 7.5 tonne lorry without having to pass a test.

I hired one years back when we moved house.

Yeah I read something about passing before 97 as well?

1 minute ago, Rudy said:

Yeah I read something about passing before 97 as well?

Yep. Think 97 was the cut off point. They call it grandfather rights. Cheeky fuckers.

On 02/10/2021 at 08:42, Mounts Kipper said:

Factories in China now quoting longer lead times due to power shortage. 

I mentioned that last week, we had several of our factories confirm to us they're being pushed down to 3, 4 or 5 day weeks now (all depending where they are)

Here's a little bit more detail: China power crunch spreads, shutting factories and dimming growth outlook | Reuters

23 minutes ago, Sweep said:

I mentioned that last week, we had several of our factories confirm to us they're being pushed down to 3, 4 or 5 day weeks now (all depending where they are)

Here's a little bit more detail: China power crunch spreads, shutting factories and dimming growth outlook | Reuters

Mounts liked this

How very odd

3 minutes ago, Spider said:

Mounts liked this

How very odd

I was liking the article that sweep posted. It’s relevant to our business so interesting read for me.

Edited October 4, 20214 yr by Mounts Kipper

5 minutes ago, Mounts Kipper said:

I was liking the article that sweep posted. It’s relevant to our business so interesting read for me.

Fair enough

I thought for a brief second you were pleased. 

Think about the opportunities that exist now China is struggling though 🙂 

6 minutes ago, Mounts Kipper said:

I was liking the article that sweep posted. It’s relevant to our business so interesting read for me.

ultimately, it's going to be relevant to nearly every business one way or another - it's absolute chaos out there, and shows the whole shortages and shipping situation we're seeing now is a totally global thing (Brexit doesn't help of course, but it's definitely a global issue)

I'm not sure in this instance, why Spider has pointed out that you liked the article.........

4 minutes ago, Sweep said:

ultimately, it's going to be relevant to nearly every business one way or another - it's absolute chaos out there, and shows the whole shortages and shipping situation we're seeing now is a totally global thing (Brexit doesn't help of course, but it's definitely a global issue)

I'm not sure in this instance, why Spider has pointed out that you liked the article.........

Sorted that.

Whatever it is Mounts imports, I'm sure he's got 3 years stock and planned ahead though.

I imagine he'll be unaffected.

1 minute ago, Spider said:

Fair enough

I thought for a brief second you were pleased. 

Think about the opportunities that exist now China is struggling though 🙂 

Now then, one of our customers, we've recently quoted him a 75 week delivery on some Microprocessors, and he's not happy, as usually they would be on an 8-10 week delivery time, so he's pretty much got to pay huge prices on the grey market now, or not build anything for 18 months.......so to help out, we've just sold him some product, 3000pcs @ £18 each.....usually these parts sell for around £3 each 🙂

Anyway, he's raging, and think's he's been stitched up, not by us, but by the Chinese (Even though the parts he wants/needs are actually made in the South Korea...) - so he says to my colleague, something along the lines of how the UK should be building Wafer Fabs (which produce the "raw" ICs) here in the UK, and we should then stick it to the Chinese. In the ideal world, we then could be on control of our own components, and get product into the market place early next year. He was most put out, when it was explained to him that to build a Fab from scratch takes around $10B and 5-7 years. He's now decided that we're too reliant on the Far East........which wouldn't be so bad, if he'd not spent the last 15~20 years buying everything he can from Far East manufacturers, including his PCBs (which he then get's populated in Poland, as it's lower cost than having it done here in the UK)  - he's a dick...sadly, he's a dick with a decent spend, so we have to entertain him

2 minutes ago, Spider said:

Sorted that.

Whatever it is Mounts imports, I'm sure he's got 3 years stock and planned ahead though.

I imagine he'll be unaffected.

I'd forgotten about that, was it Miami who was saying people should have stuck 3 or 4 years worth on the shelf, so allow for any bumps in the road

2 minutes ago, Sweep said:

I'd forgotten about that, was it Miami who was saying people should have stuck 3 or 4 years worth on the shelf, so allow for any bumps in the road

No, it was Mounts. Miami, to be fair, never had a pop that we lost our european customers.

Mounts took great delight in telling me we ran our business badly and should have seen bumps in the road coming.

Poor planning, apparently.

Which is why he'll be sittin' pretty right now.

Edited October 4, 20214 yr by Spider

12 hours ago, mickbrown said:

I believe that if you're a certain age, (like what I am) you can drive a 7.5 tonne lorry without having to pass a test.

I hired one years back when we moved house.

Can drive one but not professionally, you need the cpc for that. 

Just shy of 2k for a c1+e atm. You normally take the rigid test then the truck n trailer (class 1) 6 months later. You can jump straight to class 1 atm. 

Would it be a better job than teaching? Probably..

13 minutes ago, only1swanny said:

Can drive one but not professionally, you need the cpc for that. 

Just shy of 2k for a c1+e atm. You normally take the rigid test then the truck n trailer (class 1) 6 months later. You can jump straight to class 1 atm. 

Would it be a better job than teaching? Probably..

Fuck off Swanny, you can't have yet another job surely.

4 minutes ago, Winchester White said:

Fuck off Swanny, you can't have yet another job surely.

Can be drive a ship straight?

Speed up deliveries through the suez!

20 minutes ago, Winchester White said:

Fuck off Swanny, you can't have yet another job surely.

 

Nah, I'm stuck in teaching, just saying it's quite a well paid job atm truck driving..

Similar salary to teaching, but much much lower barriers to entry.

 

Don’t worry about the driver crisis folks, apparently the treasury has received 27 temporary visa applications from the EU. Better than a kick in the bollocks I suppose😂

8 hours ago, only1swanny said:

 

Nah, I'm stuck in teaching, just saying it's quite a well paid job atm truck driving..

Similar salary to teaching, but much much lower barriers to entry.

 

90% more holidays in teaching 

9 hours ago, only1swanny said:

 

Nah, I'm stuck in teaching, just saying it's quite a well paid job atm truck driving..

Similar salary to teaching, but much much lower barriers to entry.

 

Your CV must be like war and peace. 

😂

1 hour ago, Rudy said:

90% more holidays in teaching 

 

fuse lit...

Just now, Traf said:

 

fuse lit...

He can’t answer. He’ll be busy doing that job where he turns up at 9.00, home 6 and a half hours later with an hour for lunch.

17 minutes ago, MickyD said:

He can’t answer. He’ll be busy doing that job where he turns up at 9.00, home 6 and a half hours later with an hour for lunch.

and 2 x twenty minute breaks squeezed into the day as well remember

30 minutes ago, MickyD said:

He can’t answer. He’ll be busy doing that job where he turns up at 9.00, home 6 and a half hours later with an hour for lunch.

He’ll have a well earned break in a few 

working 6 weeks straight the poor little lamb 

20 minutes ago, Sweep said:

and 2 x twenty minute breaks squeezed into the day as well remember

 

6 minutes ago, Rudy said:

He’ll have a well earned break in a few 

working 6 weeks straight the poor little lamb 

Both are good points, both well made.

11 hours ago, Farrelli said:

Don’t worry about the driver crisis folks, apparently the treasury has received 27 temporary visa applications from the EU. Better than a kick in the bollocks I suppose😂

I stand corrected, actually it is 127 visas which was confirmed by bozo this morning. Fab😀