Haulage industry bosses have told MPs that the shortage of lorry drivers and resulting crisis in the supply chain is not improving despite measures introduced by the government to try and alleviate the problems.
Duncan Buchanan, director of policy at the Road Haulage Association, also strongly criticised the recently announced 5,000 three-month visas for foreign drivers saying “if you were designing a visa system to fail, you would design it something like this”.
He forecasted that the problems being experienced could last a year.
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NAM Implications:
- How could it, in all reality?
- i.e. insufficient/inadequate visa releases, insufficient time to train locals.
- Against a backlog of 100,000 driver shortage…
- Welcome to the new norm.
