Recambiosdelcamion.com, in favor of favoring the generational replacement of truck drivers

Despite the significant percentage of unemployment in Spain, the positions of driver of lorry, industrial vehicles, commercial and professional transport by road are not covered.  For this reason, at recambiosdelcamion.com we are in favor of lowering the age to get behind the wheel of a truck to 18, as proposed by the DGT, because it will equalize Spanish regulations with those of the rest of the countries and because at the same time it can encourage employment in the sector. Otherwise, professional drivers will have to be 'imported' from other countries, especially from Latin America (with Peru and Chile in the lead), where there is a strong surplus of heavy vehicle truckers, to cover the demand for jobs.

According to sector organizations there are several factors that explain the drop in the number of truckers: the high price of fuel (and other added costs) and, above all, working conditions, which are very harsh and they scare young people. "It's a very slave job and it's not compensated by profits", recognized Gonzalo Sáez de Ibarra, leader of the Federation of Carrier Cooperativesof the Basque Country, "At a time of crisis like this" it is It is essential to make the profession of carrier attractive to the new generations, which must be the replacementand the replacement of the current one, Sáez de Ibarra insisted.

The lack of new truck professionals is not something exclusive to Spain, the phenomenon has also been detected in other countries in Europe and North America, according to sources from the  International Road Transport Union. In France they attribute the deficit to the newly created environmental tax and too low wages. Something similar is happening in Switzerland and Belgium, where it has already been warned that the replacementof 80,000 road freight transport professionals is needed. In Canada, they anticipate that in the next biennium they will need to incorporate some 30,000 truckers into the profession.

At recambiosdelcamion.com we are convinced that the measure could be a catalyst for the sector that achieves in a long-awaited generational replacement and rejuvenate the templates. It is an initiative that can give good results. As good as our prices and the continuous offers, discounts and promotions of spare parts, spare parts, accessoriesand complements of recambiosdelcamion.com< /b>. Preparing the arrival of summer, we recommend our promotional sales on electric and heated mirrors for all truck brands, such as DAF, Man, Renault or Mercedes Benz, among others