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BREXIT - what it means for small manufacturers
BravoV:
Just read and watched the video of this news, just watch the video, interesting spot ... like transporting car windscreen wipers using helicopter ? :o
Curious how much is the selling cost ? :-// ???
-> Brexit thingy ...
fcb:
Dover gets snarled up on a regular basis. The have a name & plan for it (Operation Stack) since the 80's, there are roadsigns up that refer to it etc.. Nothing new there.
That haulage firm bought at least one helicopter a couple of years ago (https://www.keranews.org/2019-01-10/no-deal-brexit-threatens-trucking-shipments-across-english-channel) - and for sure it's cheaper to fly windscreen wipers in than have a production line stop. When you need your wiper blades flown by helicopters you'll will certainly pay for it.
Cerebus:
--- Quote from: fcb on December 19, 2020, 01:37:42 pm ---Dover gets snarled up on a regular basis. The have a name & plan for it (Operation Stack) since the 80's, there are roadsigns up that refer to it etc.. Nothing new there.
--- End quote ---
There is however a new plan. To prevent congestion on the roads though Kent to Dover, come Brexit, lorries destined for Dover are going to banned from entering Kent without having filed for permission. Thing is that, in usual government IT project fashion, the system and software to manage this is running late and is not even tested. The hauliers were only given a half finished specification for their end of it a month or two back and may not even yet have the final specification. But, of course, the system of penalties to enforce this is still due to come into operation on the 1st January.
fcb:
Operation Brock? |O
Being near Felixstowe we know a number of people in logistics, they are a pretty stoical bunch - I think they must all be on medication, but they deny this.
Cerebus:
Reminds me of "Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters", a concept album by Hawkwind and others about the Lockheed F-104 "Widowmaker" aka Starfighter. One track starts with a voiceover of someone administering a list of tranquillising drugs to a pilot to prepare them for climbing into the cockpit of one of these widowmakers:
Ground Control: Ready for last minute cock-pit-check?
Pilot: OK
GC: Largactil....five milligrammes
P: Check
GC: Valium...ten milligrammes
P: Check
GC: Haloperidol...five milligrammes
P: Which one?
GC: The little white ones. W - W for white. (W-W written as the German VolksWagen symbol)
P: (a bit slower) OK. Check
GC: Pheno Barbitone. Five Milligrammes
P: (slower) Check
GC: Disipel...five milligrammes
P: (even slower) Cheeeck
GC: Glass of water
P: Cheeeeeeeck...
Ground Control and Pilot: Our father .... which art in heaven hallowed be ... mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxi ma culpa
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