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This trucker from A Coruña who frequently travels to London points out that “Brexit” has only complicated the lives of transporters and customers

05 oct 2021 . Updated at 05:00 h.

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The route between Galicia and London gives a lot of time to think and between ferries and poorly equipped service stations Celso sotelo think especially of the horrible decision that has been the Brexit. Speaking while driving, he claims that he had never seen so many Spaniards flee the country. “No matter the circumstance, age, everything. Some have been here three months, others forty or fifty years. Others have families, children born or raised here. And everyone is going back to Spain». Many of them have found work in Spain or take the opportunity of teleworking to leave.

Regarding the transport crisis that the island is suffering, he affirms that it is something that could be seen coming. “At Brexit it’s all negative for carriers and customers »Sotelo explains. “Before it was a simple collection, a transport, now it is an import and export and that entails paying more taxes, such as VAT, and doing more paperwork for the Treasury and customs.”

All that new expense has brought with it an increase in prices. “Many clients don’t get it. Some directly ask me to skip those taxes, not to declare them, and to bring the merchandise here as if it were contraband. Little more and it seems that I work for Sito Miñanco »he jokes. “I don’t get involved in that, in the end the one who ends up in a mess is me.” However, there is a silver lining, and in this case, the trucker explains that the increased control has prevented many “escapees” from getting away with it. “Now your name appears on all sides, on all papers, it is more difficult to do things wrong.”