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RE: [VIDEO] Lorry drivers
https://www.iru.org/resources/newsroom/new-iru-survey-shows-driver-shortages-soar-2021
Don't know much at all about the IRU, but this is who they say they are:
The International Road Transport Union (IRU) is the world road transport organisation. We represent the entire industry – bus, coach, truck and taxi, and drive the sustainable mobility of people and goods across the planet.
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RE: [VIDEO] Lorry drivers
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Si Wooldridge says...
"Don't know much at all about the IRU, but this is who they say they are:"
I've been driving trucks for 16 years, and I've never heard of them. I daresay their comments may be well founded, but I wouldn't call them an authority on anything.
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RE: [VIDEO] Lorry drivers
Who would call an authority on trucking?
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RE: [VIDEO] Lorry drivers
10k is still a large number but only 10% of the total shortage.
Obviously I've not seen the ONS figures mentioned, but should be easy enough to confirm or refute...
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So Tory Boy Pierce is trumpeting that only 10,000 EU drivers quit.
But his darling Prime Minister is going to solve the problem with 150 troops.
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Si Wooldridge says...
"Who would call an authority on trucking?"
ARI, DVSA, Openfleet, DoT, FTA.
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"ARI, DVSA, Openfleet, DoT, FTA."
Cool, have any of them released public statements on this?
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RE: [VIDEO] Lorry drivers
Probably not, as the link you posted reads like alarmist tabloid bunkum, complete with over-arching headline, and while surveying 777 companies from the hundreds of thousands all over the world, the results aren't very relatable to what's going on here:
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Surveying 800 (actually 777) road transport companies from over 20 countries (23), IRU found that driver shortage was most acute in Eurasia, where last year 20% of driver positions were not filled. China was the least affected country in 2020 with only 4% of jobs open.
Elsewhere, driver shortage was less serious in 2020 than 2019 due to the pandemic. In Europe, unfilled driver positions fell by around three quarters, from 20% to 5% for bus and coach drivers and from 24% to 7% for truck drivers.
So not really relevant.
https://logistics.org.uk/media/press-releases/2021/september/logistics-uk-welcomes-government-measures
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This item was edited on Thursday, 30th September 2021, 08:14