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"This picture was taken at a cleaning station in Svebølle in Denmark" - Jeff Nixon.

Great photo Jeff. Keep them coming!

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Here's our first entry into Decembers #BritEuropeanPhotoComp... "Never mind king power, how about Brit power!!" - Garry Hancock.

This month's theme will be CHRISTMAS (of course)

HOW TO ENTER:
🚛 Take a photo of a Brit European Truck
🚛 Send the photo to us - via Facebook messenger
🚛 We will post the photos on our Facebook page
🚛 The post with the most likes WINS!
🚛 The winner is announced at the end of each month & will receive an Amazon voucher!

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Here's the truck that was featured in the painting this morning... This photo was taken en route to Baghdad in 1976.

Photo sent to us by Philip Logan. We believe that driver may have been Ian Taylor. Thanks Philip.

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How fantastic is this painting by (?).R.Coulson? From 1924 to 1964, Brit European was known as Carmans Transport. Named after the Carman Family (who still own the company to this day).

This was sent to us a couple of weeks back but we've been unable to track down the first initial of the artist.
The original was owned by a Mr Paul Rowland from Ipswich, Suffolk, who drove the Trans UK Haulage Ltd truck in the painting.

Give this post a like to recognise the brilliant talent of Mr Coulson 👍

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Congratulations to Philip Logan! You've won our November #BritEuropeanPhotoComp with your throwback photo of one of our trucks on its journey to Pakistan (which got 110 likes)!

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Happy St Andrew's Day to our Scottish followers!

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We have a last minute runner!

Thanks for sending this in Dan Dean 🙌 Don't forget to share & get as many likes as you can. The winner will be picked this afternoon!

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"We've come a long way since we first started delivering JCB" - Philip Logan

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We're here to remind you that... "Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day" - Dalai Lama

Have a great day everyone!

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There's only 4 days left until the end of this months #BritEuropeanPhotoComp...

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We came across this over the weekend - A fun way to explain the tax system in our Country...

Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to £100...
If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this...

The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay £1.
The sixth would pay £3.
The seventh would pay £7..
The eighth would pay £12.
The ninth would pay £18.
The tenth man (the richest) would pay £59.

So, that's what they decided to do..

The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve ball.

"Since you are all such good customers," he said, "I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by £20". Drinks for the ten men would now cost just £80.

The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes.

So the first four men were unaffected.

They would still drink for free. But what about the other six men?
The paying customers?

How could they divide the £20 windfall so that everyone would get his fair share?

They realised that £20 divided by six is £3.33. But if they
subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer.

So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by a higher percentage the poorer he was, to follow the principle of the tax system they had been using, and he proceeded to work out the amounts he suggested that each should now pay.

And so the fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% saving).

The sixth now paid £2 instead of £3 (33% saving).

The seventh now paid £5 instead of £7 (28% saving).
The eighth now paid £9 instead of £12 (25% saving).

The ninth now paid £14 instead of £18 (22% saving).

The tenth now paid £49 instead of £59 (16% saving).

Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to drink for free. But, once outside the bar, the men began to compare their savings.

"I only got a pound out of the £20 saving," declared the sixth man.

He pointed to the tenth man,"but he got £10!"

"Yeah, that's right," exclaimed the fifth man. "I only saved a pound too. It's unfair that he got ten times more benefit than me!"

"That's true!" shouted the seventh man. "Why should he get £10 back, when I got only £2? The wealthy get all the breaks!"

"Wait a minute," yelled the first four men in unison, "we didn't get anything at all. This new tax system exploits the poor!"

The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.

The next night the tenth man didn't show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had their beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn't have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!

And that, boys and girls, journalists and government ministers, is how our tax system works.

The people who already pay the highest taxes will naturally get the most benefit from a tax reduction.

Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore.

In fact, they might start drinking overseas, where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.

David R. Kamerschen, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics.

For those who understand, no explanation is needed.
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