There are about 10,000-odd freight drivers in Hong Kong who travel between Shenzhen and Hong Kong to transport food and freight. Recently, a cross-border drivers to “Apple Daily” big grievances, that the mainland Shenzhen Bay Port law enforcement agencies from time to time to make things difficult for them, Shenzhen Bay has more than 10 lanes of traffic, but the authorities only open 2 to 3, so that the truck crossing the long queues. If they are randomly checked, the port staff even use the word “drag”, it takes 24 hours to complete. The driver said helplessly, and said that China and Hong Kong family? This class of people completely inhumane, play dead Hong Kong people!
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A driver surnamed Ma said that cross-border drivers are exempted from the 14-day self-financed quarantine under the epidemic, but still have to undergo mandatory virus testing at the gates before they can enter the mainland. At least 4,000 to 5,000 Hong Kong and China freight drivers travel between the two places every day to deliver goods such as daily necessities, firewood, oil and salt, and even large furniture. The Shenzhen Bay Port, which has more than 10 lanes, is only open to 2 to 3 lanes daily, resulting in long lines of trucks, “They simply do not want so many Hong Kong people to cross the border!”
If the “unfortunate” encounter spot checks, the situation is even more horrible. A driver will be unloaded with tools to prevent the tires from sliding on the front of the car, arousing the suspicion of mainland customs officers, and asked him to stop for inspection, the result is a 24-hour wait. Mr. Ma pointed out that the customs officers told the car to stop at the gate, but refused to test the first time, “(personnel) where to sit, completely ignore you, during which you are not allowed to get out of the car, but also with a seal to seal the door, not allowed to drop the car to go to the toilet, eat only to buy them, in short, can not get off, they are afraid that we are toxic! Totally inhumane.”
Mr. Ma also said that some drivers waited for 8 to 10 hours before customs officers began to check the goods, all the goods are moved out to check, but after the check will not move in, told the driver to find their own help to move, many drivers were tortured 24 hours or even 30 hours, suffering unbearable.
As only two to three lanes are open at the gates, resulting in long lines of cars and long waiting times, some drivers honked their horns in protest and were warned by mainland law enforcement officials that if they honked again, they would be disqualified from being exempted from the 14-day self-funded medical quarantine, and drivers dared not speak out in anger. Mr. Ma hopes to reflect the incident, so that officials understand the hardships of Hong Kong and China drivers, “Hong Kong and China drivers are really hard! Usually 1, 2 hours to do things, have to wait for 8 to 10 hours, really play us disabled!”
Another China-Hong Kong truck driver Jerry complained, said he also experienced the same encounter, the mainland border guards to the epidemic as the reason, “hold the chicken feathers when the arrow” to bully Hong Kong drivers, the mainland border guards are also full of profanity, “out of insults.
One of the drivers to provide footage shows that the Chinese Hong Kong drivers in black clothes have been checked out of the car, so go into the control room of the port, to inquire whether you can drive away, but by law enforcement officers in Mandarin pointed and yelled, scolded him to get out of the car, etc., during the more from time to time with profanity, bad attitude, the Chinese Hong Kong drivers to calm things down, dare not refute.
There are also reluctant to name the Hong Kong and China drivers pointed out that the reason why they dare not speak out in anger, all because the law enforcement officers at the border will be a personal vendetta, once a rebuttal to their Hong Kong drivers’ names, phone numbers and return home certificates, to “large print” way posted in a conspicuous place at the border, the most humiliating, “the class of the so-called anti-epidemic The so-called anti-epidemic staff knew that the drivers did not dare to resist, that they were afraid of being stopped by the authorities for the trumped-up charge of not cooperating with the anti-epidemic measures, and that the drivers were afraid of losing their jobs.
The above “big words” in addition to publicizing the personal identity of the Hong Kong driver, the mainland customs units also strictly prohibit the “list” of drivers to enter the field, otherwise the duty team members will be held responsible. The Chinese and Hong Kong drivers are deeply dissatisfied with the practice, “an ordinary so-called epidemic prevention staff, can treat the driver so, all because they can prohibit the driver from entering the country on trumped up charges”.
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