Indians to drive Hungarian trucks? Hungarian Waberer’s sets new trend
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Waberer’s International, the leading Hungarian transport specialist, is to employ 80 drivers and two dispatchers from India to ease the labour shortage in the sector. The new colleagues will start in April, and from September they will work alone. Employing professionals from India is not rare in Europe in the transport sector. And they do not take away jobs from Hungarians. There are tens of thousands who could work as truck drivers in Hungary, but they do not want to. Therefore, demand for drivers from third countries like Serbia and Ukraine is rising.
Challenging profession
According to portfolio.hu, Waberer’s International starts testing the Indian applicants for the 82 open positions. The truck driver profession is ageing, leaving the job is frequent, while the demand is rising. The Hungarian economy news outlet says the increase in the sector is two-digit every year.
That vacuum cannot be solved with higher salaries – Zsolt Barna, CEO of the Hungarian Waberer’s, said. He added that the work was not easy. True, driving is easier than before, thanks to the many gadgets. However,
the job is stressful, parking is difficult everywhere in Europe, and journeys sometimes take very long.
Thus, divers rarely see their families.
Indian truck drivers are competent
The company said they still counted on Hungarian drivers and people from the Central, Eastern European regions. However, it has become hard to find Ukrainian, Serbian, Romanian drivers recently. Companies compete for Ukrainian drivers despite the ongoing war.
Since labour shortage baulks the company’s expansion, they resorted to employ Indian drivers.
Polish and Lithuanian transport companies also like to work with Indian drivers since they are well-prepared and hardworking. Furthermore, in India, working abroad has a long tradition. Thus, it is easy to recruit people with foreign driving experience. Currently, these people are the target group of the Hungarian transport giant.
Anything seems to be better than improving the working conditions for the drivers. The main thing is wages and social dumping at any price…
But that’s just normal in Eastern Europe. Man himself counts for nothing.
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