Originally Posted by
Keith Tindell
I see the dire shortage of lorry drivers is causing lots of problems in the UK, now the cheap labour market has closed down, Tesco offering a £1000 for a new driver to sign up.The way i see it is that haulage firms have never bothered to do their own training of drivers, some maybe, but most not. In the Fire Service we trained all our own personnel for HGV and paid for the licence renewal, which was £40 many years ago. Driving huge HGV vehicles in our crowded little UK is skilled work. KT