Poor chap is headed for a career in human remains so I see they’ve got to him early with the way of thinking “no anything but pay more and better hours, anything!”
In your survey you seem to be saying that there is a shortage why?
Because there is a UK HGV skill shortage, an ageing workforce with lack of new entrants, I’m solely looking into strategies that can overcome this such as apprenticeships etc,
The FTA have stated there is a skill shortage within HGV industry, maybe I’ve come to the wrong place for help.
James the cat:
Question 13 could do with another option.
Pay more/ better working conditions
Poor chap is headed for a career in human remains so I see they’ve got to him early with the way of thinking “no anything but pay more and better hours, anything!”
Please refer to Q.14, It’s interesting you mention this, as from the HR and Transport managers who have undertaken the survey, higher remuneration and benefits package was in the top 3 of all respondents.
In your survey you seem to be saying that there is a shortage why?
Because there is a UK HGV skill shortage, an ageing workforce with lack of new entrants, I’m solely looking into strategies that can overcome this such as apprenticeships etc,
The FTA have stated there is a skill shortage within HGV industry, maybe I’ve come to the wrong place for help.
Don’t apologise dude. Ask away, just expect robust information. An open door on here that subject, you’ve waded into the beer saloon clutching an appetiser.
In your survey you seem to be saying that there is a shortage why?
Because there is a UK HGV skill shortage, an ageing workforce with lack of new entrants, I’m solely looking into strategies that can overcome this such as apprenticeships etc,
The FTA have stated there is a skill shortage within HGV industry, maybe I’ve come to the wrong place for help.
Don’t apologise dude. Ask away, just expect robust information. An open door on here that subject, you’ve waded into the beer saloon clutching an appetiser.
In your survey you seem to be saying that there is a shortage why?
Because there is a UK HGV skill shortage, an ageing workforce with lack of new entrants, I’m solely looking into strategies that can overcome this such as apprenticeships etc,
The FTA have stated there is a skill shortage within HGV industry, maybe I’ve come to the wrong place for help.
If there was a LGV driver shortage then newbies would be snapped up by companies the moment they passed and the job ADs would be mainly by companies and not agencies - those are the FACTS not my opinion
ATsimpson:
Because there is a UK HGV skill shortage, an ageing workforce with lack of new entrants, I’m solely looking into strategies that can overcome this such as apprenticeships etc,
The FTA have stated there is a skill shortage within HGV industry, maybe I’ve come to the wrong place for help.
And who exactly are the FTA mate, and who do they represent?
Freight Transport Association (FTA) is one of the UK’s largest trade associations and represents the transport interests of companies moving goods by road, rail, sea and air.
It’s this simple, make the job more appealing and there wouldn’t be any concerns about a future potential shortage. Keep paying ■■■■ wages and treating drivers like crap, and yes at some point there will be a shortage. The truth of the matter is that people like the FTA don’t want the basic rules of capitalism to function, so are crying like babies and wanting the government to sort out the crap they have caused by attempting to make the job NMW…
Interesting how precise the wording of the title of the thread.
OP maybe recognises the difference between a skill shortage and a qualified persons shortage.
If you want to pass with top marks then probably repeating the ■■■■■■■■ the FTA, RHA and govt stooges talk about this subject would be best.
However if you want to tell the truth in your piece, the subject is intricate and goes back many years, we haven’t suddenly been treated like something you trod on in the street overnight, we’ve been society’s pariahs for generations, but working class people are used to that.
ATsimpson:
Because there is a UK HGV skill shortage, an ageing workforce with lack of new entrants, I’m solely looking into strategies that can overcome this such as apprenticeships etc,
The FTA have stated there is a skill shortage within HGV industry, maybe I’ve come to the wrong place for help.
There is no such shortage of drivers. If there was, there would not be jobs driving a lorry advertised as paying not a great deal more than minimum wage; and there would also be yards across the country full of trucks with nobody to drive them. There would also be media hysterics about empty shelves/no petrol/all the rest of it.
Do not under any circumstances believe ANYTHING that the FTA says. It is a trade body that solely has the interest of its members (hauliers in this case) at heart, and is well known for peddling this ■■■■■■■■ about driver shortages because a fair proportion of the industry’s penny pinchers (of which there are many) think that they are entitled to public money to train drivers for their commercial enterprises. And of course, no government is going to be hoodwinked into coughing up unless it thinks that there is a critical shortage of staff, is it?
It is a little presumptuous of you to come on here and tell drivers that they work in an industry that is short of manpower when they know a lot better than you that it simply is not the case.
ATsimpson:
Because there is a UK HGV skill shortage, an ageing workforce with lack of new entrants, I’m solely looking into strategies that can overcome this such as apprenticeships etc,
The FTA have stated there is a skill shortage within HGV industry, maybe I’ve come to the wrong place for help.
There is no such shortage of drivers. If there was, there would not be jobs driving a lorry advertised as paying not a great deal more than minimum wage; and there would also be yards across the country full of trucks with nobody to drive them. There would also be media hysterics about empty shelves/no petrol/all the rest of it.
Do not under any circumstances believe ANYTHING that the FTA says. It is a trade body that solely has the interest of its members (hauliers in this case) at heart, and is well known for peddling this ■■■■■■■■ about driver shortages because a fair proportion of the industry’s penny pinchers (of which there are many) think that they are entitled to public money to train drivers for their commercial enterprises. And of course, no government is going to be hoodwinked into coughing up unless it thinks that there is a critical shortage of staff, is it?
It is a little presumptuous of you to come on here and tell drivers that they work in an industry that is short of manpower when they know a lot better than you that it simply is not the case.
In your survey you seem to be saying that there is a shortage why?
Because there is a UK HGV skill shortage, an ageing workforce with lack of new entrants, I’m solely looking into strategies that can overcome this such as apprenticeships etc,
The FTA have stated there is a skill shortage within HGV industry, maybe I’ve come to the wrong place for help.
There is a shortage and you have come to the wrong place. Quite a lot of the people here feel threatened by anyone with and education… act out like the chavs they are instead of helping you get on in life.