Those yards who are both not prepared to train drivers AND not prepared to pay the going rate - really need to clear the air by going bust asap.
The same applies to agencies. I’ve always predicted that it will be the insurance companies who indirectly bring down the duff agencies - by refusing cover or charging too much for it - when it comes to agencies employing the no speke enough English/9 points OK/Ex Con/Hidden Medical History drivers who shouldn’t be let anywhere near a truck, but get waved through “Because they’re the one’s who’ll work for £7.50ph or 60-84 hour weeks”.
The “Great Dying” begins once we do Brexit properly, and EU drivers working here start asking for more money to compensate them for the fact that the pound has fallen enough for their money being sent home to be worth a lot less than it used to be. That’s less EU drivers available. Then there’s the EU drivers like Waeberers coming over here, who don’t get paid so much for their wares any more. That’s less trucks bringing stuff here on the cheap. Then there’s the huge and still rising expense of things like CPC/Licence/Commuting/ and anything the ■■■■■■■■ remainers want to make up as an “additional fi fo fum fee” to make our lives a misery, but instead just drives more and more truckers into the more lucrative lines of work, because we’re not all one-trick ponies ya know! 