impound their trucks and send them to the shredder, let’s see how long they will last.
its quite expensive to have trucks just sitting there without working so i wonder who pays for this.
Yesterday I read this tweet by Exen (Polish dude supplying 4×4 vehicles to Ukrainian soldiers).
> Enough! The situation at the border with the off-roaders for the army is HORRENDAL! I have drivers who are standing for the second day 🤬 **99% of the blame lies with the Ukrainian customs officers**. There is no such brothel anywhere else in the world. A state within a state. ZSU will be riding bikes if they don’t embrace this.
So it seems not only polish truckers are to blame.
Edit: He delivered almost 200 vehicles to Ukrainian army, him and his friends have been driving from PL to UA many times so I have no reason to not believe him.
Remember when British, German, or French truckers blocked their borders when they lost their jobs because of ridiculously cheap Polish labour? Oh wait…
Can’t wait for AI to take over trucking. Truckers are nothing but trouble
Omg again with this crap
Total support for Polish workers.
I’m wondering if German truckers should now block all Polish trucks as they hurt their business with lower prices?
Polish truckers got a legal court permit to strike and the strike was signed by the Mayor of border county. Like a week or 2 weeks ago the Mayor single handedly cancelled the protest, to which truckers replied by appealing the decision to the court that made a verdict in a favor for the truckers saying that Mayor cannot cancel the protest all by himself, so the truckers are back at the border.
Putin loves this shit.
Ukraine is fucked and it’s because Putin was right – the west couldn’t get their shit together as a unified force and act accordingly. Blame is shared across EU for not taking rearmament seriously despite having ample time to do so and squandering it and the U.S. devolving into political theatrics and not taking national security seriously due to the weakening of their democracy. Its gross to see
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First I want to notice that military cargo and humanitarian aid is exempt from this blockade.
Ukrainian and Polish truckers are in very different conditions. And wages is not even the most important part. Polish truckers inside Ukraine wait roughly the same waiting time as Ukrainians under blockade.
Ukrainian firms have different tax burden. Also, Ukraine is highly corrupt state – it is unlikely those firms even pay those taxes they need to pay. I actually knew a person who just bought a trucker licence in Ukraine, which can hold up to any scrutiny.
Poland is very limited with amount of measures it can apply, while Ukraine is not. And Ukrainians are using that.
I don’t think it will be even a stretch to tell that some people in Ukraine profit from that situation a lot, and that’s why Ukraine’s government is so adamant that the only problem here are Polish truckers.
Edit: grammar
And they say there are no gay parades in Poland…
I suppose the polish truckers will also block the russian tanks if Ukraine falls thanks to their efforts.
We were lucky with the neighbors. At least Romania turned out to be a normal country
Can someone ELI5?
Ukrainian border customs is the most corrupt place on earth ( No joke).
Ukrainians: “Our people are dying because of this blockade”
This sub: “You Ukrainians aren’t being thankful enough”
It is clear now that it is Russian led initiative and so called Polish drivers are just a naive crowd.
There is a deficit of drivers on western directions. In Poland no one cares about this protest, it is not even reaching the major headlines. It is an initiative that is directly against Ukraine.
Thank you Poland 👍
When Poland will understand that EU market isn’t of their property and they didn’t join EU to dictate which country can sell their product and which country can’t? just find a common ground on prices and end this non sense actions, italy 🇮🇹
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This is indeed a tough one.
impound their trucks and send them to the shredder, let’s see how long they will last.
its quite expensive to have trucks just sitting there without working so i wonder who pays for this.
Yesterday I read this tweet by Exen (Polish dude supplying 4×4 vehicles to Ukrainian soldiers).
> Enough! The situation at the border with the off-roaders for the army is HORRENDAL! I have drivers who are standing for the second day 🤬 **99% of the blame lies with the Ukrainian customs officers**. There is no such brothel anywhere else in the world. A state within a state. ZSU will be riding bikes if they don’t embrace this.
Translated by DeepL, bold section by me.
https://twitter.com/Exen/status/1736427898779701339
So it seems not only polish truckers are to blame.
Edit: He delivered almost 200 vehicles to Ukrainian army, him and his friends have been driving from PL to UA many times so I have no reason to not believe him.
List of all vehicles he donated: https://pomagam.pl/4x4dlaukrainy
His Twitter: https://twitter.com/Exen
Remember when British, German, or French truckers blocked their borders when they lost their jobs because of ridiculously cheap Polish labour? Oh wait…
Can’t wait for AI to take over trucking. Truckers are nothing but trouble
Omg again with this crap
Total support for Polish workers.
I’m wondering if German truckers should now block all Polish trucks as they hurt their business with lower prices?
Polish truckers got a legal court permit to strike and the strike was signed by the Mayor of border county. Like a week or 2 weeks ago the Mayor single handedly cancelled the protest, to which truckers replied by appealing the decision to the court that made a verdict in a favor for the truckers saying that Mayor cannot cancel the protest all by himself, so the truckers are back at the border.
Putin loves this shit.
Ukraine is fucked and it’s because Putin was right – the west couldn’t get their shit together as a unified force and act accordingly. Blame is shared across EU for not taking rearmament seriously despite having ample time to do so and squandering it and the U.S. devolving into political theatrics and not taking national security seriously due to the weakening of their democracy. Its gross to see
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First I want to notice that military cargo and humanitarian aid is exempt from this blockade.
Ukrainian and Polish truckers are in very different conditions. And wages is not even the most important part. Polish truckers inside Ukraine wait roughly the same waiting time as Ukrainians under blockade.
Ukrainian firms have different tax burden. Also, Ukraine is highly corrupt state – it is unlikely those firms even pay those taxes they need to pay. I actually knew a person who just bought a trucker licence in Ukraine, which can hold up to any scrutiny.
Poland is very limited with amount of measures it can apply, while Ukraine is not. And Ukrainians are using that.
I don’t think it will be even a stretch to tell that some people in Ukraine profit from that situation a lot, and that’s why Ukraine’s government is so adamant that the only problem here are Polish truckers.
Edit: grammar
And they say there are no gay parades in Poland…
I suppose the polish truckers will also block the russian tanks if Ukraine falls thanks to their efforts.
We were lucky with the neighbors. At least Romania turned out to be a normal country
Can someone ELI5?
Ukrainian border customs is the most corrupt place on earth ( No joke).
Ukrainians: “Our people are dying because of this blockade”
This sub: “You Ukrainians aren’t being thankful enough”
It is clear now that it is Russian led initiative and so called Polish drivers are just a naive crowd.
There is a deficit of drivers on western directions. In Poland no one cares about this protest, it is not even reaching the major headlines. It is an initiative that is directly against Ukraine.
Thank you Poland 👍
When Poland will understand that EU market isn’t of their property and they didn’t join EU to dictate which country can sell their product and which country can’t? just find a common ground on prices and end this non sense actions, italy 🇮🇹