Matei is a truck driver who owns a small logistics company in Romania and is fed up with the lack of safety and security for truck drivers across Europe. His post is not only a tribute to a fellow truck driver who died tragically two years ago in France, but also a cry for practical solutions to provide safety, security, and services to truck drivers NOW. You can read a translation of the post below.
You can read the original post here: https://www.facebook.com/CSPFE/posts/pfbid0hh5UPoRAnqBQMRWkLKai1SMQvypksK7gHRyuwbjW1pnFAwoFf8wMtHeWdWNkFQAvl
“ This man isn’t some rich kid who wrecked his daddy’s car killing a couple of people in a crosswalk.
Nor is he some influencer, apartment blogger or clown who puts flour in his head for 2 lions in official matches.
He is Mihai, Spătaru Mihai !!!
Two years ago he was stabbed to death with a machete in a parking lot in France and his only fault was that he had the same job as us.
What has changed since then?
Well, a lot!
Not only have attacks on the trucks we drive started to be more frequent, but also in new areas like Germany, Austria and more recently in the Bulgarian, Serbian, Romanian border areas by infiltrating illegal immigrants into trailers bound for Western Europe.
The conditions are becoming more and more precarious, the resting places more and more unkempt and unsafe and the only problem of the European control bodies does not seem to be the safety of the professional drivers and the goods, but that you do not take the weekly rest at the hotel, that the drivers make trips longer than 1 month, that the trucks do not go every 8 weeks to the country of registration and for this they fine the drivers and the transport companies with thousands of euros.
This is what the police protection is limited to in the transport of goods, to fines of 3-4 figures and the victims of both the police and the thieves are us, those who do this job, as Mihai did before being kidnapped next to the truck.
The only thing that has changed since this boy’s death is that the amount of fines given to those who work on trucks has increased, otherwise they can be maimed, killed, robbed, nobody cares.
Truck robberies are the order of the day in countries such as France, Spain, Czech Republic, Hungary, UK or Sweden and Denmark.Resting places are still scarce and after 5 p.m. it is almost impossible to find a free place, not to mention that even if you do, in the morning you can be found gassed in the cab, mutilated, robbed or with stolen goods or diesel!
So, what’s changed by this man’s death?
Exactly, nothing!
But it’s wonderful to hear speeches in the press about the safety of drivers, about how dangerous we are in traffic and to share almost weekly the hard-earned money to Western policemen who don’t know what comma in the laws to look for to increase the budget of the countries crossed by the people of Romania’s roads.
The funny thing is that recently the natives of those countries have started to be attacked, but everything is quickly covered up to give society the impression that they have the situation under control.
This man died for nothing, he died for the simple fact that he was working on a truck!!!
Rest in peace, comrade!
We won’t forget your name!”
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