Driver Shortage
Criticism mounts over Government plans to s...
The new HGV driving test requirements are a “panicked” reaction to a driver shortage created by the government’s policy on Brexit, warns parcel delivery service
Government takes further action to tackle H...
Up to 50,000 more HGV driving tests will be made available each year thanks to government action to streamline the testing process and tackle the
Driver shortage to be focus at the Fleet &#...
Logistics UK and Driver Require will explore ways in which the UK can address the current HGV driver shortage crisis as part of an in-depth
Logistics UK calls for 10,000 EU work visas...
Logistics UK has urged the government to replicate its Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme for the logistics sector and prioritise the granting of 10,000 temporary work
DVSA to recruit an extra 40 additional voca...
A campaign to recruit additional vocational driving examiners in England and Wales to help reduce the lorry driver shortage has been launched by the Driver
Logistics UK presses government for tempora...
Logistics UK has called for government to review its decision not to grant temporary work visas to EU HGV drivers, in the wake of mounting
UK supply chain faces collapse in ‘tw...
Speaking to the BBC, Richard Burnett, RHA chief executive said that despite meeting with Transport Secretary Grant Shapps last week to warn him of the
Decision to grant EU drivers temporary work...
The government could be on the verge of a “massive Brexit U-turn” and offering temporary work visas to EU truck drivers in an attempt to
Fleet optimisation software to tackle drive...
Implementing fleet optimisation software should be a transport firm’s first step to addressing the driver shortage, according to tech firm The Algorithm People (TAP). It
Government response to driver shortage
Transport minister Baroness Vere said extending drivers’ hours was “definitely not a long-term solution” to the burgeoning recruitment crisis, and that the industry had known
