Draft law against cheating on roads can be stopped

the Problem with oschyst competition between road hauliers and drivers on european roads is a serial. In Sweden unions and employers agree that new legislation is needed to stop rogue hauliers, particularly from Eastern europe. The foreign companies considered to destroy the market by circumventing the EUROPEAN union rules, wage dumping, and to allow their employees to work in substandard conditions.

the basic question is what should apply when a truck carries out transport operations between EU countries, but above all, when carrying out transport within another country. Foreign drivers often stay longer in Sweden than what the rules allow.

new rules in 2017, which is then processed in the EU-parliament. With only days left to the crucial form of voting in parliament looks the whole package to be in danger.

Marita Ulvskog, a socialist member of the EUROPEAN parliament, warning that if parliament does not come to a decision now, it may take years before something new happens. It is not certain that the new commission takes office in autumn to remove the infected matter.

– It would mean that the mess and the injustice created by that we do not have the order on the european labour market will remain. It creates a dangerous environment where one does not respect the rest periods and driving with bad vehicles, " says Marita Ulvskog.

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. Countries such as Romania and Bulgaria looks tighter rules as a restriction of their opportunities to operate on the internal market. But there is also an ideological dimension which is all about the balance between freedom of movement and the individual countries ' rules on the labour market. Where the ports of the Swedish socialists and conservatives on different sides.

Gunnar Hökmark (M) are of the opinion that the commission proposal is sufficiently rigorous and that the parliament's transport committee has made for big changes.

– the social democrats have changed the commission's proposal together with the protectionist forces in Germany and France. We will not vote for what the committee has put forward, it would prevent a sensible transport policy, said Gunnar Hökmark.

against the committee's proposal to cabotageregler, that is to say how long a foreign driver may stay in country and carry out domestic transport. The committee's proposal is so narrow that it would lead to that cars go empty – climatically and economically inefficient according to Hökmark.

LO president Karl-Petter Thorwaldsson warns that tens of thousands of Swedish jobs are at stake.

"We are not opposed to the man can fill a truck with cargo, we are not opposed to cabotage, but the liberal rules we have today makes it impossible for every country to ensure that the rules are complied with," he says.

Parliament will vote on Wednesday. On Monday, however, it can be a vote if the committee's proposal to even be up to a vote.