UK truck driver shortage: hauliers criticize new measure to attract foreign workers as ‘worst option’
The British government is moving to loosen rules on the number of deliveries foreign truck drivers can make to the UK, in an attempt to unblock the stalemate in the country's supply chain.At the moment, EU carriers can only pick up or deliver goods twice a week in the UK. Under the new proposals They can do it unlimitedly for a period of up to two weeks.The government, which says thousands more deliveries could be made each month, is consult the industry on the suggested changes that would take effect towards the end of the year.The chronic lack of truck drivers, a result of Brexit, the pandemic and other factors, has led to fuel shortages, empty supermarket shelves and the jamming of goods at the UK's busiest container port, Felixstowe.In recent weeks, the government has moved t...