Who is Manuel Hernández, the leader without a truck of the carrier strike

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Manuel Hernández is the president of the National Platform for the Defense of Transport. He is the leader and visible face of the national transport strike that began on March 14, continues today, Sunday, and will be two weeks old tomorrow.

This strike is the most important that has occurred in Spain since the

, which lasted 11 days and in which

when they participated in two pickets (one in Granada and the other in Portugal).

This strike was where the National Platform for the Defense of Transport became known after being born at the end of 2007, "when

decided to set up an Association to bring together medium and small transport companies and begin to defend their interests in the Galician community.At the same time and with the same objectives

towards the creation of a new Association that would respond to the neglect that carriers suffered from the travel Federations of all life and thus

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The problem is that the 2008 strike caught them by surprise and almost like "a bunch of buddies".

Without having established the statutes of the association or its legal bases.

Hence, "both the Government, as well as those of the National Committee for Road Transport, as well as the shippers, opened a common front of harassment and demolition against Platform."

This meant that in 2010, Platform practically did not exist.

However, the problems of working below operating costs continued with what the protest movement persecuted by Platform resurfaced

, the date on which the

of the National Platform was created.

Transport to try

and give a voice to the thousands of SMEs and freelancers that make up the grassroots sector ("those who have the trucks, fill the diesel, wear out the tires and pay the salaries").

That same day, the Platform asked the

for an

to convey to the then minister of the branch,

, the

of the small and medium-sized transport companies and demand from the Government a decree that prohibited "from resoundingly" the payment of transport services below operating costs, the great workhorse of the sector for years.

On June 30, Manuel Hernández records and publishes on Facebook his first video as spokesperson and visible head of the Platform.

The now president of the organization then presented himself as an

and asked carriers like him to stop

and organize around the same

as the

in 2008. "Divided we are nothing, but united we have the upper hand.

," he said at the time.

Manolin Transport

Many blamed him then that Manuel Hernández himself was to blame for having bankrupted the family business that he inherited from his father,

The last accounts presented in the BORME of this company are from 2017, which shows earnings of 22,255.43 euros and a turnover of 812,208.49 euros and debts of 308,762.77 euros.

He was accused on social networks that he had bankrupted his company so as not to pay creditors or drivers, something that Hernández has always denied

.

The truth is that he no longer has trucks.

"The gentlemen who negotiate for us forced me to get off the truck," he wields.

on the Platform's Facebook page

in which he has been unraveling, almost daily,

by the Platform until reaching the indefinite strike on March 14.

The first videos barely exceeded

and hardly anyone knew him.

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Today his videos, sometimes two or three in the same day, have

and Hernández has become the leader of

the truckers'

The videos of him are

in which carriers organize themselves to coordinate

like the ones that are traveling and collapsing Spanish roads these days. .

If in 2008 the lockout began because the price of diesel was at 1.3 euros, this time the trigger was once again the price of diesel above 2 euros.

However, 14 years later, the root cause continues to be "the non-existence of a law that prohibits us from working below operating costs".

According to the claims of Platform, "currently and according to the Cost Observatory, the average km of an articulated lorry for national service in general cargo

. This is the price to cover operating costs with a minimum profit, and today the prices imposed by most chargers

(Loaded and empty)".

The Observatory of Costs of Transport of Merchandise by Road is the result of the work that, under the auspices of the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, carried out in April 2021, the National Committee of Transport by Road (CNTC), the Association of Manufacturers and Distributors (AECOC), the Association of Shippers of Spain (AEC) and the Spanish Association of Shippers.

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