UK parliamentary transport committee launch probe into driver shortage crisis

22/09/2015

The UK cross-Parliamentary Transport Committee is to launch an enquiry into skills in the road haulage industry, to assess industry complaints that it is suffering a severe shortage of skilled drivers.

It will also “assess how effective the government’s response has been”, it said.

One of the problems in terms of developing skills and training is that responsibility for it tends to fall across several different ministries, which can make such investigations difficult.

However, among other issues specific to the haulage industry, the ...

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peter wright
April 25, 2016 at 10:07 am
No it suits the big transport companies and the employment agencies
across the UK…

forget this idea about there being a shortage of skilled drivers and this constant cry of ‘We need more drivers.. ‘what there is are people who are not willing to drive a artic or rigid lorry for stupid money so because the UK drivers have had
enough and are hanging up their keys ‘and looking elsewhere for employment or
retiring early The big companies and agencies are looking overseas for cheaper labour ‘and they are getting it by the hundreds and ‘its not just happening here
look at most European countries and there is a sizeable amount of cheaper labour
at the wheel.
I for one ‘don’t blame those drivers one bit ‘if your country’s Standard of living is
lower than ‘say the UK then its stands to reason ‘if you’re being paid 4 euro a hr in whatever country you live in ‘then getting 8 pounds a hr in the UK is worth leaving for.
NO I don’t blame those people I don’t blame them one little bit
The People I blame are the same old crowd the big players in the transport
industry so called logistics companies … the driving agencies and the good old EC
no investment low pay bad conditions idiot proof automatic lorries
the utter sham of the this so called CPC and the constant search for other drivers within a company to take on the mantel of ‘Driver assessor
or someone else to take the blame. yes there maybe a shortage of good skilled
lorry drivers out there and small hauliers know that more than most ‘thankfully our last drivers found other work outside this industry after eighty
years in haulage our gates shut this week all our fleet have now been sold ‘so glad to be out of it…
peter wright
haulage contractor
c/o Arthur Wright & Sons Haulage Contractors
Est 1936 Essex.

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Brian Mc Caig
August 29, 2016 at 12:09 pm
Shortage of drivers is caused by low pay and unsocial hours

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