“Holland is damned!”. The Happy Reaction Of A Romanian Truck Driver, After Being Checked By In

“Only happy faces among the truck drivers who were checked at Geldrop on Tuesday morning,” the quoted source wrote. The Human Environment and Transport Inspectorate pulled drivers off the road on a busy highway in southern Holland. He wanted to check that the rules were being followed, for example in the area of ​​driving and rest times. The drivers, mainly Romanians, appreciated the control.

Dorel, from Romania, “is behind the wheel of his truck with a smile on his face”, writes OB. It was just taken off the road by a van from the Human Environment and Transport Inspectorate.

“Holland is scheisse,” he laughs, in a mixture of broken English and German. There is almost no parking for trucks and nowhere to go to the toilet. And, according to the Romanian, it doesn’t really stop either. But he likes the control: “It’s good for us.”

The Romanian driver has good reason to be satisfied with this control: according to the law, he must be paid according to the Dutch wage standards, if he transports things in the Netherlands. This does not usually happen with foreign drivers.

A representative of the Dutch authorities describes the verification mission as a kind of “social audit” which is carried out to see if employers comply with European rules. They look at the data from the tachograph (a device installed on vehicles that records speed and allows monitoring of work and rest time, no), to see if the driver is working too many hours.

The labor inspectorate also checks compliance with working conditions. For example, if drivers are registered in the European registration system, to see if a driver is paid according to the standards that apply in EU states.

“We explain to the drivers that this control is for their protection,” said a Dutch inspector. According to the official, it is about fair wages and good working conditions. In the case of the Romanian driver he just checked, everything was fine.

“We don’t want to catch the drivers, but simply check that all the rules are followed properly and that the drivers can do their job normally, in good conditions. Therefore, the drivers are satisfied with the check,” the Dutch inspector also said.

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