muckles:
So the industry spends years, if not decades using cheap labour to keep wages down, not improving roadside facilties, ever more intrusive monitoring of drivers, still expecting them to work long hours when other jobs hours have been reducing, expecting drivers to max out legal hours each week, expect new drivers to pay the ever increasing training cost for less and less return on their investment and then they wonder why they are left with an unattractive job and can’t encourage new entrants?
Well said mate, could not agree more with all of that
Around 90% of roadside facilities have gone, proper cafes (not MSA crapholes btw, they certainly do not have us down as their priority 
) are a complete rarity, and town centre truck parks are virtually a thing of the past.
The peanut and monkey scenario, with the monkeys in abundance holding their blagged Class 1s ruining the driver’s image…enough said
Modern management, (mostly in created fancy title non jobs) treating grown men like schoolkids, with cameras in cabs and the constant pushing and hassling drivers on the phone, that compromises road safety.
Treating ridiculousl long driver hours limits as weekly targets…drivers as bad for that as their bosses. 
Drivers forced by law to self fund a created gravy train industry for no real benefit (ie dcpc)
And all for around a tenner an hour. 
You can just hear young guys clamouring to get into it tempted by these attractive t.s and c.s eh?.