Letters: Politics closed France to lorries, not an assessment of coronavirus risk
A shortage is feared of cauliflowers and lettuces, seen here by William Hunt (1790-1864) Credit: www.bridgemanimages.com SIR – Closing down Dover to Calais freight movements (report, December 22) may well have been purely political. Under Covid health and safety rules in the European Union, all drivers delivering to factories (or collecting), have to stay in their cabs. The lorries are loaded or unloaded by the warehouse staff. When drivers arrive in the United Kingdom, the shrink-wrapped pallets are offloaded by the receiving warehouse – again with the drivers remaining in their cabs. ...
Source: telegraph.co.uk