Driver shortage[again]

speedyguy:
the only salient point is due to very high average age of drivers now we will be fooooked in 10 years.

I very much doubt we will, just my opinion.

Pimpdaddy:
I very much doubt we will, just my opinion.

+1. For every English HGV driver that retires, there’s always someone to replace them; whether they’re from the UK or not.

ajt:
Nobody wants to operate plant either. Long hours, dirty manual type work is unfashionable.

YEAH SO IS ANY WORK FOR A LOT OF THEM

CHAINSAW:
The posts will be filled with tractor driving Poles and licence bought Romanians, and when that source is exhausted they will probably give aid grants to Syrians to train up, and lastly give the flood of African migrants a shiny new licence to go with their shiny new made up name… and all the while leaving 1.8 million on the dole and [zb] knows how many on the sick, but from what I can gather they get more money than I do for slogging my arse out for 60 hours!!! Industry is [zb], country is [zb], exit EU and dump all politicians would be a quick fix…

I COULD NOT AGREE MORE WITH YOU, WE GOT MOSTLY POLES AND LITHOS DRIVING AROUND HERE AND ITS ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE. :cry: :cry:

ukip.org/uk_lorry_driver_cri … s_shopping

UKIP are at it now… :smiley:

But Mrs Seymour said: “…It’s no good setting up apprenticeships, if there is no incentive for the next generation to choose a career in the haulage industry in the first place…”

Nail on head and no amount of government funding or RHA bleating will change this basic fact, if there is a shortage it is entirely down RHA members’ greedy irresponsibility, END OF.

chicane:
But Mrs Seymour said: “…It’s no good setting up apprenticeships, if there is no incentive for the next generation to choose a career in the haulage industry in the first place…”

Nail on head and no amount of government funding or RHA bleating will change this basic fact, if there is a shortage it is entirely down RHA members’ greedy irresponsibility, END OF.

With fuel prices on the wane - overheads for hauliers should have provided the additional profits to pay the premiums needed to attract new drivers into the industry - or poach the cream from other firms.

How can anyone in the transport industry be bleating on about “Times are 'ard” when the so-called “cutthroat competition” is widely known to be those few firms running bent?
You can’t blame the crooks for driving down prices - not when businesses get all this tax relief these days. :frowning:

is that UKIP lady barking mad ■■

she doesnt mention that ex soviet drivers have provided a wage lowering ready supply if bums on seats for a decade …

so that haulage industry has preferred profits and new range rovers to training its own native staff .

and now it wants tax payer to bail them out !! .

training staff is a cost of sales/trading and if they cant recoup these costs they have no business being in business

If firms had to pay for all damage themselves, rather than just make another insurance claim on a blanket cover scheme - they’d go out of their way to get premium drivers over any old tom with a licence. :bulb: