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In Calais, French road hauliers worried and angry

2020-12-22T19:43:56.266Z


REPORT - Between 200 and 250 French truck drivers wonder if they are going to spend Christmas in their trucks.


Special envoy to Calais

Usually, connections with the United Kingdom are not his daily life, but when one of his clients has called on him for a return trip, David Bray, director of Bray Transports, based in Méricourt (Pas-de -Calais) found a solution, and above all a driver ready to help.

As a result, after a delivery in Scotland, the driver in question is stuck across the Channel for an indefinite period.

Sunday evening, France announced the suspension of links with the United Kingdom, embarrassing the truckers already left on the island.

It's a disaster!

Our driver cannot come back, we are trying to get him to come back via Belgium or the Netherlands, but all the boats are full!

This is absurd.

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Like him, they would be between 200 and 250 French truck drivers to wonder if they will spend Christmas in their trucks, estimates Olivier Arrigault, secretary general of the National Federation of Road Transport (FNTR) North.

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Source: lefigaro

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