Greek Truck Drivers Strike - Do they have a case? - 2.8.10

The Greeks truck drivers have decided to call off their strike action with the agreement they will have talks with the Greek Government in September about how best to move forward with the freeing up of the Greek transport industry. The question is, does the Greek trucking industry really need liberlisation?

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Greek Truck Drivers Strike - Do they have a case?

First of all lets set out our understanding the current rules are in Greece.

The number of transport licenses in Greece is limited which means existing license holders/lorry drivers can sell their licenses to other lorry drivers when they decide to leave the transport industry. This means that these licenses can be traded for hundreds of thousands of Euros.

The new rules are designed to open up the Greek transport industry to anyone that holds a truck license.

To see if the truck drivers have a point let's look at one of the most liberalised transport industries in Europe, the UK and see how it compares to Greece.

Service - Good get delivered in the UK the same way they get delivered in the UK with mainland Greece being served by a mostly next day service and the islands 2 days. The same as the UK

 

 

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Greek Truck Drivers Strike - Do they have a case?

Price - Smaller parcels are generally cheaper to send in Greece with larger pallets being slightly more expensive

Vehicles - The lorry fleet in the UK is much much younger than in Greece. What does this mean? Well there is certainly less debt in the Greek transport industry. On an environmental front, even though older trucks are by far the most polluting, research has suggested that the construction of any vehicles is by far the most polluting part of its life so it could be argued that the Greek transport industry is more eco-friendly than its more liberalised counterparts

Wages - Wages levels between Greece and the UK not known

Employers - The majority of Greek lorry drivers are self employed, which must be a good thing for customers and for the environment, owners drivers are more than likely to take better care of their trucks than non owner drivers

Pensions - Greek truck drivers are in a much better position than their British truck driving counterparts. They can either sell their licenses when the retire or pass it on to the children. Having something to pass on to your kids is becoming more and more of a rarity in the modern Worlds with many parents leaving their children much less than they were left by their parents

So given these facts, are customers better served in the UK or Greece?

On a price front, the position is nearly enough identical

On a service front, the position is nearly enough identical, your parts might come in a nicer truck and you get tracking on your parcel in the UK but that's about it

So, should Greece open up its transport market?

Well customers won't gain a lot, and the lorry drivers will definitely loose out by not having a nest egg when they retire.

We are not normally for Government intervention in anyway, but what's done is done in Greece, the only thing liberalisation will mean is that a profession will be robbed of millions of Euros in nest eggs with no-one benefiting. Except may the banks who will be lending millions of Euros to multinational transport companies to buy new trucks and employ Eastern European drivers at knock down prices and erode the stature of what it is to be, a professional lorry driver. It was once a respected proffesion in the UK, not any longer, the same thing should not happen to Greece.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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