She drives 120 km every day! Marielle Allou is a liberal home nurse and president of the Amiens Santé Home Nursing Service (SSIAD). She has been working in this profession for 32 years and today, the rise in fuel prices is a real handicap in her work. “I see about 40 patients a day. Before I put 40 euros of diesel, now I am at 60. At the end of the month I have 200 euros less”, she explains.
Home helpers benefit from mileage assistance, but much lower than the increase in fuel prices. It therefore calls for the zero-rating of fuels for health professionals who visit their patients.
“We make a cross on the profits”
An increasingly complicated situation also for Food Trucks. Simon is the proud owner of one of these restaurant trucks that criss-cross the roads of Hauts-de-France. This increase generates an additional cost of 20% on its activity. “We had to report the cost of this increase on our products” he concedes.
For his part, Jules Slaviero did not choose to increase his prices. He is 26 years old and two years ago he created a food truck company based in Amiens and specialized in street food: “For the moment, I have no plans to increase the price of my products, but it is true that I see the profits melting more and more“, he laments. “On has gone from a trip that costs around fifteen euros to go to a location to 35-40 euros, we have more than doubled. We gave up on some of the profits we take“.
On the side of truck drivers, the situation is not the same. “It impacts us but our prices are indexed to that of fuel. It’s regulatory, so it doesn’t penalize us but at the end of the chain, it penalizes the consumer more” explains Jean-Stéphane Prévoté, manager of a transport company and president of the National Federation of Road Transporters in Picardy.