"They are here day and night." At the border of the line of trucks, drivers stand five days

Hundreds of heavy trucks have accumulated on the Russian-Lithuanian border, which cannot leave the Kaliningrad region to other Russian regions. Drivers stand in lines for several days. The nerves are handed over, the case comes to the brawls and damage of the machines, the correspondent of the North Realia found out. The regional authorities say that they are not in their power to change the situation: Lithuanian customs officers have long and intently inspecting every truck.

The queues of the truck on the Russian-Lithuanian border have been standing for two weeks. On March 23, at the international automobile checkpoint "Chernyshevskoye - Kibartai" 650 trucks accumulated. The multi -kilometer "Kolya" stretched from the state border to the center of the border Nesterov.

These trucks are brought from Kaliningrad to other Russian regions furniture, equipment (mainly refrigerators and TVs), food, as well as Portoport. According to drivers, freezing is sent in a general queue, chilled products are passed faster, about a day. The path passes through the territory of the European Union - Lithuania and Latvia.

First, the Kaliningrad Regional Customs reported on the "unstable work of information systems" in Lithuania, which is why Lithuanian customs officers draw up 3-4 trucks per hour. Whereas Russian - 127. And later it turned out: from March 11 to April 20, Lithuania unilaterally announced a state of emergency on its territory.

"Under the internal legislation, the Lithuanian customs strengthened customs supervision and verification, which slowed down the usual customs inspection processes and increased the time necessary for customs clearance," the regional government explained .

Now Lithuanian customs officers are arranging a total inspection for each car. Fores shine through an X-ray with an apparatus, although earlier it was sent to an X-ray in rare cases.

“We drove a hundred meters in 11 hours. At first, the Lithuanians did the X-ray, then they were sent to Vilnius, and then, when they give confirmation of the entrance, customs officers, supposedly they don’t like something, begin to open, climb, look,” said the trucker Alexander Inshakov.

Fide drivers are forced to stand in the field, without toilets, shops, cafes. Food, taken from the house, ends, but you can’t leave the queue, otherwise you can lose a place in it. "Not the idea, not in the sartyr, do not devour, normal!" - Discuss carriers in their groups in social networks ( the author’s spelling is preserved. - SR ).

In response to the complaints of drivers, the governor said that "last week, several dozen toilets, trash cabins were installed, the supply of power was organized if drivers desired."

In the meantime, many people surrender their nerves. In social networks, truckers post a video of fights and photos with the results of "Tarani trucks".

Infutable flights

- It’s not easier to stand in the city. The only dry closet throughout the route we saw is one and a half to two kilometers. Where is the toilet here? And we cannot leave either, you can’t drop the car, they will immediately go around. But you can ask a comrade, even if he overshadows, he will leave you a place, ”says the driver of the truck Vladislav . He has been living in his car for two days on the border crossing "Sovetsk - Panemun".

If, at the entrance to Chernyshevsky, trucks stand in the field, then in Sovetsk - right in the city. Hundreds of trucks lined up along the Neman border river. These are mainly empty trucks, without cargo.

“The queue is coming from Rzhevsky, this is 5-6 kilometers,” says the trucker Igor . - But here is the city, trips, pedestrian crossings, you can not put cars one after another. So the turn would be shorter. Now only empty vehicles are going on here. Since at the Chernyshevskoye - Kibartai point collapse, half of the carriers decided that it was better to earn less, only by loading in Russia, than nothing at all. And went empty without cargo. And so such a queue formed. The border works. And the Lithuanians work. It was just that such a number of transport was not here before.

-Already standing plus or minus for two days. And usually without cargo through the border we go for three hours, if everything is fine. It went empty, what to watch it, ”says Vladislav .

The driver of a small truck Alexei just arrived from Kaliningrad. Three days ago, he took the turn, but then went home. He goes to Moscow, delivers a passenger car and a car on the trailer.

- I have no way to sleep in the car because I work on Mikrika. We can neither eat nor drink there, there are no conditions. We left the car and arrived today, ”says Alexei. - In order not to lose the queue, my shifter spent the night in another minibus.

In the store, he purchased with foods and power engineers. Ahead is a long night.

“Since the queue is already suitable, I think we’ll call for six hours,” the driver hopes.

Before the aggravation of the situation with the neighbors, Kaliningrad truckers could go to Lithuania and vice versa three times a week. In transit through Lithuania, to Moscow, St. Petersburg and vice versa, it was possible to drive "on a relaxation" in four days. “And now - ten days, probably. The earnings remain the same, but the costs of the flight are increasing - both temporary and financial, you eat more in this line,” says Alexei.

The empty trucks in Sovetsk will be loaded only on the way back, in Bolshoi Russia. That is, the flight is already inferior, the drivers say.

"Draft"

How long will the flight take and how safe it will be, no one takes to predict. In social networks, a video is already appearing, where wagons with Russian numbers are attacking . But drivers surveyed by the North Realii hope for the adequacy of neighbors.

- Anything can be. These are all horrors and fears: I heard one somewhere, told another, the third, I exaggerated something, ”said Alexei. - And this is not always believable. When the driver shows that in Poland the hoses are cut to him ... But you will go to any driver - if he will cut the hoses, he will go to shoot with the phone? I think it's unlikely. The mount will already be in our hands ... We go at night, do not see aggression in our direction. They did not notice, at least. I would like to believe that people are all reasonable and their mind prevails, ”says Alexei.

- In general, these are single stories. But it is not necessary to climb this, half of the stories is exaggerated and does not have a massive nature. Well, it happens, someone painted something with paint on a lot, a common blasphemy. But there were no serious conflicts. I would like to get worse, ”Igor believes.

But still, this time, they are going to go without stopping through Lithuania, it’s safer.

- Previously, they stayed in parking lots, go to the shower, eat. And now Lithuania, Latvia - let's go with a draft. Passing at night - his eyes bulged and went. Vilnius is even more or less a city, but there are two cities-the Kaunas and Shalyai district, there are “true” Lithuanians, and Russians are not particularly loved, ”says Vladislav. - The people are trying to drive Lithuania so that there are no these problems.

Communicating in chats, drivers suggest creating an electronic queue at the border. “For drivers, this is the perfect way out of the situation. I will wait for my line for a week at home, it’s better than in the cockpit,” the truckers write.

But so far there is no dialogue with the Lithuanian customs. The Kaliningrad authorities are not able to influence it. The regional government believes that the situation could solve the new point of the Dubka -Ramban pass near Sovetsk. It was built in 2020, and it was assumed that "he would unload neighboring checkpoints Sovetsk and Chernyshevskoye, will save Sovetsk from heavy traffic. It will also be possible to begin overhaul of the Queen Louise bridge." However, the passing point was never opened in the pandemic.

“Thanks to him, the traffic flows could be reoriented and the queues would be reduced. From the Russian side, the automobile checkpoint is ready to work, the case is behind the Lithuanian side. We repeatedly ask the Lithuanian side about their readiness for opening,” the government notes.

“Of course, it is necessary to open“ oaks, ”says a resident of Sovetsk Victor. - If they were opened, then the cars would not stand here. In general, they wouldn’t stop into the city, there is a direct road to Kaliningrad. Furs do not bother me, I walk along the sidewalks. But in general, they are here day and night, it is hard for drivers.

“Well, can they bother us?” Then they can at least go out, go to the cafe, to the toilet. They do not bother any of the inhabitants. We are very sympathetic, because the guys earn money, ”pensioner Valentina Ivanovna sympathizes with truckers.

On March 24, the Kaliningrad customs reported that the line in Chernyshevsky was reduced by halves - to 318 heavy trucks. In Sovetsk, in anticipation, there are 101 cars.

The authorities talk about the Baltiysk-Ust-Luga (Leningrad region) as an alternative to the delivery of goods by land. But today there are only two ferries on the line. This year, two more should be delivered, but this is not enough, due to their small carrying capacity, entrepreneurs say. In addition, on each of them there are only 12 seats for those accompanying the load.