News / Light at the end of the tunnel? UK driver shortage crisis eases

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By Gavin van Marle

17/02/2022

A bit of good news for the UK’s beleaguered shippers and freight forwarders – there are tentative signs that the driver shortage crisis might be beginning to abate.

New research from Logistics UK shows that while there were 49,000 fewer HGV drivers in the workforce in the fourth quarter of 2021 compared to the fourth quarter of 2019, a surge in testing by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) in recent months means “the number of HGV drivers in the ...

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