Tesco bin 50 tons food a week due to HGV driver shortage

[Mottie]

Neither but I think we all know what group you are in.

 

[sxturbo]

Bonus

You would think that but at my work the engineer get good money for being off-site and especially if they go offshore regularly, but as soon as family comes into play, they pack it in and don't want to do it. It makes it very difficult to keep hold of good staff.


Guys from continent don't mind it though, the poles, Dutch even Germans.

Us British have become little softies and most are afraid of a bit of graft, and sounds chauvinistic but the women no longer want to be at home with the kids while bloke earns all the money, they want (and rightly so) the kids to be a shared responsibility (this is the biggest reason we struggle to keep hold of guys).

 

[Notch7]

Low wages according to the RHA, and covid caused a halt to training and testing so thousands of driving positions couldn't be filled. Brexit may have contributed in a very small way, but the whole of Europe is facing a shortage of HGV drivers

Wrong.

Tony Cornwall from Road Haulage Association says: "there is an issue with recruitment, with many European drivers having "gone back home" due to Brexit"

A bit like nurses

A bit like fruit pickers.

 

[Notch7]

The real money in haulage is either be an inter country driver

There's only one place where inter country HGV drivers go.....the EU.

But something has happened..it has meant massive increase in trade barriers and a loss of cabotage rights.

 

[Notch7]

Owens Group has 1,000 vehicles and employs 950 drivers so it is the skills shortage that Mr Jarman is worried about.

Standing by one of his new lorries, he said: "Not everyone can take that out onto the road and manoeuvre into places customers want you to drive it."

His concerns have been echoed by industry body the Road Haulage Association.

It said there were about 60,000 driver shortages and that there used to be about 60,000 drivers from the EU.

 

[Notch7]

Owens Group in Carmarthenshire said it had lost 50 drivers who were EU citizens, as they did not meet the new criteria for skilled work visas.

 

[Notch7]

An exodus of EU lorry drivers from the UK since Brexit has left the British haulage and logistics industry facing an acute staff shortage and a looming crisis for industrial and retail deliveries

FT.

 

[Notch7]

Road Haulage Association (RHA) and the Federation of Wholesale Distributors (FWD) were among those warning recently that the driver shortage was now at crisis point, with a growing shortfall in numbers of HGV drivers. This is being put down to Brexit and Covid-19, with delays in driver training and testing added to an exodus of European lorry drivers following the UK’s departure from the customs union and single market

https://internetretailing.net/opera...-shortages-as-hgv-driver-shortages-bite-23330

 

[Notch7]

New laws that have come into effect following Brexit have been blamed for sparking an exodus of EU-born lorry drivers

Daily Express

 

[Brigade77]

If brexit & covid are to blame for this driver shortage . . . How do you explain the driver shortages of previous years, even when economic migration was in full flow . . . . .

 

[sxturbo]

Agree with dork lord, although brexit has had a significant effect, the shortage has always been lurking in the background

 

[Brigade77]

Agree with dork lord, although brexit has had a significant effect, the shortage has always been lurking in the background

There isn't & never has been a shortage of LGV drivers. These co's want to force down the pay & conditions of drivers as it's the easiest route to lower costs / increased profits.

 

[Brigade77]

My likkle Bro' came off the sites & jumped into the cab when Mario & Aleksi arrived to do his trade at 1/3rd the wage.

It took him 5yrs+ of driving for agencies & bottom rung co's who all basically "took the ****" with him. Now he enjoys 2x-3x nights away & a long weekend at home driving a £300k+ motor, pulling loads that often exceed £1/2 million in value, for a co' that pays him £700+ pw & the Boss not only knows his name but regularly invites him round for the BBQ.

You really would not believe some of the ****e these drivers have to put up with.

 

[Lower]

I know a few people who don't have an ounce of common sense without having a degree...

They’ll be the ones refusing a Covid jab.

 

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

If brexit & covid are to blame for this driver shortage . . . How do you explain the driver shortages of previous years, even when economic migration was in full flow . . . . .

Agree with dork lord, although brexit has had a significant effect, the shortage has always been lurking in the background

Then why implement a policy that could only exacerbate the situation?
UK have a shortage of nurses, so let's implement a policy to make it worse.
UK has a shortage of HGV drivers, so let's implement a policy to make it worse.
NI - Ireland is on tenterhooks, so let's implement a policy to make it worse.
Fishing industry is struggling, so let's implement a policy to make it worse.
UK Finance industry is going strong, so let's implement a policy to jeopardise it.
Motor industry is going through a generational evolution, so let's implement a policy to jeopardise it.
etc, etc.