News / Lines blame shippers for UK haulage crisis, with driver shortage growing

03/10/2014

Ocean carriers continually blame their customers for the precarious state of liner shipping, and now they are pointing fingers at shippers as being culpable for the acute shortage of truck drivers in the UK.

The supply and demand haulage situation in the UK has been acerbated by a strong peak season of imports and the introduction of EU legislation requiring all HGV drivers to pass a 35-hour long, module-based Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC), at a cost of around £3,000.

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S Haynes
October 07, 2014 at 1:46 pm
Not sure exactly where you got your £3000 figure for the driver’s dcpc, five modules of seven hours at between £60-£75 on average puts the figure nearer £300 which most employers have paid for…..

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mark leppington
October 12, 2014 at 10:10 am
It’s not the cost. It’s the fact that you can do 5 sessions and all the same module and pass. It’s complete and utter rubbish. I’ve been driving for 27 years and now they tell me I’m not qualified. Let’s fill the roads with Romanians and Bulgarian drivers. Then we will see the accident rates climb. I for one refuse to pay for this patronising eu bollocks

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Richard Quinlan
December 06, 2014 at 5:15 pm
I think the cpc course was excellent and certainly helped me as a professional class1 driver of many , many years on all types of transport I think there should be more not less mandatory courses to ensure professionalism safety and courtesy on the ever more congested roads.

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Shrek the trucker
March 17, 2015 at 6:28 pm
i beleive the cpc is not regulated enough if it was then people would learn something and not do the same day 5 times after all your meant to be learning something not making the government richer

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