Agency help

Carryfast:
But it is possible to find ‘driving’ agencies with what are effectively building/warehouse labourer jobs on their books.Which might sometimes involve driving a truck a few miles around the houses in a shift.The fact that they are willing to pay class 1 rates to drive an 18 tonner or less is a give away.

Well, if that is what their business model is, then that’s what they are going to need drivers to do. And that will suit some drivers and not others.

Your argument, which basically boils down to “You shouldn’t operate HGVs unless you run them the length and breadth of Europe and are prepared to take on clueless dustcart drivers to drive them” is a bit of a non-starter really.