Faced with the difficulties of the strike in France,
European road carriers are indispensable: to facilitate fuel deliveries and our
supplies, France have extended the exceptional measures allowing them to
circulate more weekend and in the coming days.
The government renews the traffic authorization for trucks
over 7.5 t transporting hydrocarbons, from October 14 to 17, 2022, and
authorizes an excess of driving time for drivers of this category of vehicles
until October 21.
In view of the fuel shortage at service stations, caused by
a strike at the refineries of the Total Energies and ExxonMobil groups, the
government is renewing the traffic authorization for trucks transporting fuels
during weekend.
Derogation on driving hours
This other ministerial decree signed on October 12 is a
temporary derogation from the rules on driving hours for the road transport of
fuels.
The following temporary exemptions apply to road fuel
transport operations in metropolitan France:
- exceeding the maximum
daily driving time by up to one hour ;
- exceeding the maximum
weekly driving time by up to four hours
- exceeding the maximum
total driving time accumulated over two consecutive weeks by up to six
hours.[1]
These exemptions apply from Saturday, October 15, 2022 to
Friday, October 21, 2022, inclusive.
Strike on 18 of October 2022
In this Tuesday, 18 October 2022, the road transport unions and
several others unions are calling for mobilization in France. Their demands
concern min wages and future reforms of salary and unemployment insurance. Wages and salary at the heart of the demands.
Three transport unions
and many others, including the CGT and FO, are calling for an interprofessional
strike to demand wage increases in the face of inflation. A social movement
born of protests in many fuel depots and refineries, which now extends to
several sectors.
The goal is calling for mobilization on different dates
against the backdrop of the beginning of the energy crisis and fuel supply
difficulties following the blockades of refineries. There is no common front,
but strikes in dispersed order.
FO Transports was the first union to announce a strike from
October 17 to 23. After an internal vote, this call was finally cancelled.
“It is out of the question to play politics. This is why the call of
October 16 by a political organization poses us a fundamental problem”,
assures FO Transports in a press release. Indeed, La France insoumise, the
Socialist Party and Europe Ecologie-Les Verts have called for a march against
the high cost of living and climate inaction on October 16.
Even if its demands on the reforms of salary and
unemployment insurance remain, FO Transports assures that it does not want
“to drown in the social movement that is coming. The employees of
transport and logistics have specific claims to their jobs that cannot be
drowned in a social movement because for our branches and sector there is a
social emergency”.
Move Expert will report on the next steps in this case any
other complications on the road or in transport sector.
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