German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/100, p.
12114.
Frau President. Right honorable ladies and gentlemen.
Who hoped in regards the draft law put forward that the
Federal government finally more resolutely defends German logistics companies
from the price and wage dumping, he is bitterly disillusioned.
Beate Müller-Gemmeke (Greens): You yourself do that in part by means of mail box firms. Do not forget!
The backdoors for sozial
dumping by means of foreign transportation companies continue to remain open because
there is neither control nor a concrete applications area for the new dispatch
regulations.
Despite various hearings with those affected, you have still
not recognized why our transportation businesses throw in the towel and many
livelihoods are threatened and why 80,000 professional truckers are lacking in
Germany, a growing tendency, even though it is thus actually logical: The pay
of our freight drivers is exactly as bad as the hygiene and supply situation at
many autobahn rest stations.
A German freight driver in the 90s could still earn 5,000
marks net and thereon feed a family; the pay today is scarcely sufficient to
live on. That is a shame! Due to your energy and tax policy and your trucking
fee increase, German transport costs are at a record level! At the same time,
you foist aggressive wage and price dumping from eastern Europe on our
truckers.
The mobility package’s amendment of the dispatch regulations
is in fact a correct step, yet remains ineffective when regulation violations
are not effectively prosecuted and punished as my preceding speaker has also
plainly stated. Only 2.6 percent of domestic hauls [Kabotage-Fahrten] in German territory are in any way controlled.
The police confirm: Our control authorities are not noticeable on our autobahns.
German money fines for illegal conduct of foreign shippers
are laughable in comparison with other European countries. At the same time,
the BALM [Federal Logistics and
Mobility Office] guarantees large-scale rebates for eastern European domestic
haul violators and indeed up to 50 percent according to the Deutschen Verkehrs-Zeitung. An insanity,
ladies and gentlemen! Exactly that leads to that foreign firms become ever more
blatant and ever more shamelessly exploit their drivers.
For fair competition conditions, we simply need more
control. In our motion [Drucksache
20/6534], we make quite concrete proposals for that:
First. The BALM
needs to be outfitted with additional positions in the roads control service.
Second. Money fine provisions need to be sharpened. That
also means not to shrink from expelling for a time foreign transportation firms
notable for unfair competition.
Third. Rebates of money fines for foreign shippers are no
more to be allowed.
And fourth – the most important which needs to be
implemented: The fees data need to be finally made available to our regulatory
authorities, ladies and gentlemen. Thereby only do we effectively thwart fraud
in regards domestic haul and sozial
provisions.
Let us therefore concern ourselves that German shippers do
not stand there with empty pockets and German professional drivers without a
pay check. With our motion, you receive a tool that gives German logistics a
future. Vote in favor of our motion, or no longer discuss with logisticians and
drivers at the next hearings!
Many thanks.
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