France is following in Germany's footsteps when it comes to road cabotage: the French National Assembly said, on 15 February, that it hopes to adopt a measure providing that truck drivers carrying out cabotage operations should be eligible for the social protection rules and minimum hourly wage (€9.61) currently in force in France. “Ambitious objectives on checks were set for 2015,” said a statement from Alain Vidalies, the French secretary of state for transport.
This is reminiscent of the German…