The 2000 fuel crisis is no guide to 2021
Kieran Smith, CEO and Driver Require Think Tank mentioned in The Evening Standard
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Quote in The Evening Standard “West End Final” by Jack Kessler
"And Driver Require - a specialist driving agency whose excellent report I got lost in for about half an hour this morning when I should have been writing the leader column - notes that 55,000 British HGV drivers left the industry during the pandemic, with an astonishing 40,000 in the first quarter of this year. Why?
Well, it’s a tough job with anti-social hours and as the report suggests, many were in self-isolation, furloughed or simply may have realised they preferred other options to driving for a living.
And with better working conditions in a number of EU countries, it is far from clear whether those three-month visas will incentivise European hauliers to drop everything to come over and fix our problems, especially when wages are rising on the continent as well."
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