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Worklife balance and people are prioritizing more and you see across not just drivers but across the whole workforce people reevaluating how they balance their life and they are reprioritizing their family and the job which can keep you away from your family for weeks at a time, its one greatly impacted by this. >> theres also a letter i want to read to you, repugnant senators are concerned labor shortage will be made worse by the vaccine mandate, if it ends up going into effect, we fear vaccina...

Eg group, which operates 400 sites, has set a £30 per customer limit. the initial problems experienced by bp were due to a shortage of lorry drivers. it is thought the uk has a shortfall of tens of thousands. theres a range of factors. brexit is definitely one of them. the pandemic, as you mentioned, played its part. the change to the payroll, of payroll working regulations, ir35, that played a significant part. but the general problem has been around and known about for ten to 15 years or more...

But again this morning, there were queues at petrol stations. absolute mayhem, nobody can get past, nobody can get in. eg group, which operates 400 sites, has set a £30 per customer limit. the initial problems experienced by bp were due to a shortage of lorry drivers. it is thought the uk has a shortfall of tens of thousands. theres a range of factors. brexit is definitely one of them. the pandemic, as you mentioned, played its part. the change to the payroll, of payroll working regulations, ir...

Estimates that the uk is short of about 100,000 hgv drivers in total — with existing shortages made worse by a number of factors, including the pandemic and brexit. heres our business correspondent, katy austin. people have been told not to panic buy, there is no shortage of fuel itself. but again this morning, there were queues at petrol stations. absolute mayhem, nobody can get past, nobody can get in. eg group, which operates 400 sites, has set a £30 per customer limit. the initial problem...

Years, the ageing driver workforce retiring and we are not replacing them with younger workers. wages are risin: as them with younger workers. wages are rising as firms — them with younger workers. wages are rising as firms try _ them with younger workers. wages are rising as firms try to _ them with younger workers. wages are rising as firms try to attract _ rising as firms try to attract staff, but freight and retail groups say more action is needed to plug the gap, while a bigger uk workfor...

Well find that a british citizen gets arrested. and a lot of people are not prepared to take that risk. i think that is very dangerous in the long term because if countries arent talking to each other as much as they should, it is extremely bad for understanding. so were to get this sort of iron curtain of ignorance imposed i think by beijings behaviour and it is not good for the world. more now on our top story. details of a temporary visa scheme to make it easierforforeign lorry drivers to wor...