TOUGH TIMES LOOM FOR SCANDINAVIAN TRUCKERS
January 1st, 2009
BY LARS RUGAARD
CASH shortages, competition from abroad and cost rises threaten to remove one of every three of Denmark's roughly 35,000 lorry drivers from their trade this year, haulage experts are warning. Speaking to Commercial Motor, a Danish truck driver sitting on the bunk of his Volvo truck sums up his industry's gloom in one sentence: "Earlier things were better".
Romanian-born Petru Gabriel, of Aarhus, for 30 years a naturalised Danish citizen, is a skilled blacksmith who has been working on and off as a long distance truck driver. During a ...
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