Tuesday 17 November 2009

Another Truckers' Delay on the Saudi-UAE Border - But What is the Real Story Here?






 "There are three whose adversary I shall be on the Day of Resurrection: a man who has given his word by Me and has broken it; a man who has sold a free man and has consumed the price; and a man who has hired a workman, has exacted his due in full from him and has not given him his wage."

Hadith Qudsi #21
SAA


If you'll look closely at this article,  you'll see in the fourth paragraph that driver, Mohammad Jolan Mustafa, gets the princely sum of AED200 (US$54.50)  to make the trip  to Doha regardless of the time spent.

Usually it only takes three days, which would make the per day wage the exorbitant sum of  AED 66.670 (US$18.17).

This time it will take eight days so his per day wages will be merely  AED25.000 US$6.81. 

I will leave it to readers to perform the wage per hour calculation.


On the border story, there was also a delay on the Causeway between Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, which the Gulf Daily News ascribes to a computer glitch in Saudi, speculating that this may have also affected the UAE/Saudi crossing.

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