Media conspire with the Government line on LORRY DRIVERS

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Media conspire with the Government line on LORRY DRIVERS

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If you live in the UK you will be likely to think that there is currently a shortage of HGV lorry drivers.
You will think that because you hear it everyday on the News.
The "shortage" is so severe they say, that tharmy is being called in and emergency Visas to foreign drivers are being offered.

This is all lies. There is NO shortage of HGV drivers. What there is is a pay crisis that no one wants to acknowledge.
FOrty years ago HGV drivers were considered well paid. The tests are then and now expensive and rigourous.
There is much to learn about nor just driving but legalities of what can be carried and for how long journeys can be taken with prescribed rest stops and time off. The work can involve long hours, often abroad, sleeping in rest stops in the cab, with the ever present risk of thieves and trafficing.

The head of the ROAD HAULAGE Association of GB, has stated on Newsnight 21/09/21 that there are at least 100k non working HGV drivers who had left the job for various reasons; one reason being that cheap imported labour from the EU had meant the low pay had forced them out of work.

I thought the whole point in leaving the EU was so that the UK could become high alue, high pay country.
How is bringing in the troops to alliviate a crisis that the UK had five year to prepare for going to achieve that?
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