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Mercedes Benz: Premium vehicle manufacturer demands dumping prices from transport companies
The German premium car manufacturer Mercedes Benz is pushing German transport service providers out of the market in favor of low-cost providers from Eastern Europe, explains BGL spokesman Prof. Engelhardt. With this demand at the current time, the shift to Eastern European dumping competition is pre-programmed. So it's only a matter of time before we experience a Gräfenhausen 2.0 (where Eastern European truck drivers blocked part of the A5 for weeks), coupled with the downfall of domestic medium-sized transport companies.
Mercedes is putting pressure on transport service providers
The car division of Mercedes-Benz AG informed its transport service providers at the beginning of this year that it expects a 10 percent cost reduction on all transport contracts (total freight rate) by February 1, 2025. Corresponding offers should be submitted by the transporters by January 23, 2025.
```The industry association of small and medium-sized transport and logistics companies, BGL and its regional associations make it unequivocally clear that this approach lacks any legitimization. The failures of the automotive industry must not be cross-financed on the backs of the transport sector. The German economy and the German Mittelstand will not be revitalized through dumping competition.
Toll has recently doubled
BGL board spokesperson Prof. Dr. Dirk Engelhardt voices what German medium-sized businesses think:
"The automotive industry strongly advocated for a doubling of the truck toll only a year ago and implemented it. This has increased the operating costs of each individual truck by around 20,000 euros per year, and that with already only average margins in road freight transport of 0.1 to about 2 percent. And today our medium-sized businesses are supposed to pull the chestnuts out of the fire for a failed automotive industry policy and offer ruinous freight rates."
Those who cannot comply because a cost-covering operation is otherwise not possible probably lose the contract to Eastern European low-cost providers, who often employ their drivers at starvation wages well below the minimum wage.
From the perspective of the BGL and its regional organizations, such demands should be reconsidered and revised as soon as possible, because:
"This form of dumping competition is unworthy of a German premium brand like Mercedes-Benz," says Engelhardt.
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