The staff at dover and Calais who work for the ferry operators essentially control and make brexit work- staff who have had no pay rise or recognition for all the extra work they do booking in commercial traffic.they are essentially doing the job a customs agent should be doing
I asked the poor women in the booth at Calais today - she was stressed out and explained it’s non stop booking in trucks - she said they must scan the T1 / GMR / check the goods against the import declaration. I honestly don’t know how they do it day in day out . It’s non stop
She basically said they are doing two jobs . Said the shortest booking in time was 4 minutes - but averaged anything from 10-20 minutes per vehicle . That’s why it’s getting worse at our port entrances .
If they walked out over pay or went on strike over working conditions trade would simply stop . Where are the 50,000 customs agents gove promised ?
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