News / Reduce minimum trucker age to help young jobless and ease driver shortages

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The International Road Transport Union has called for nations to agree a global minimum age of 18 for professional truck drivers.

One thing the coronavirus epidemic has failed to change appears to be global driver shortages, but it has certainly contributed to soaring rates of youth unemployment, and these challenges could provide the answer for each other.

“The road transport industry could be a massive source of employment for young people,” said the global trucking association’s secretary general, Umberto de Pretto. “But we ...