Truckers are extremely dissatisfied with the Kerch crossing and do not believe that the queues at it will be reduced
A truck driver from mainland Russia told the Krymskaya Pravda newspaper how he headed across the crossing to Crimea for the first and last time.
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“In two days it will be a month since I left Saratov with a load of iron. I was taking him to Sevastopol... For the first and last time,” driver Andrei told a fellow traveler on the ferry.
According to him, during this time he would have already “darted” to the North four times:
“I would return without stress and with money. And I don’t think I’ll bring anything home from this flight. Parking: first day - 350 rubles, all subsequent days - 200. You also need to eat something for three weeks. For breakfast and dinner - count, you need 400 rubles, for lunch - 300. I’m not going to eat these scourge packages with noodles, killing my stomach. So count it - 700 rubles a day just for food. Plus all sorts of little things. And the ferry?! It’s still cheap here – I only paid 5 thousand. But my car is small - only 9 meters. Those who have trucks pay 15-20 thousand for the crossing. If you sail from Temryuk to Kerch, it will be even more expensive. The men and I thought, and it turned out that every ferry there makes at least half a million rubles per trip,” the driver complains.
Andrey does not believe in any positive changes at the strategic transport hub.
“Do you want me to tell you why the queue at the crossing doesn’t clear up? Yes, because shipowners need it in order to inflate prices due to the hype. Do you know why they are so stalled with the construction of the bridge? Yes, because a lot of rich and influential people feed from this crossing, and they don’t need a bridge,” the tired truck driver reflects.
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