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longer a lack of work but a lack of people to do it. pay for drivers in the sector has jumped over the pandemic by 20 to 30%, according to the company's boss. even then, it has been extremely difficult recruiting the skilled staff he needs. i think we have faced a perfect storm of several different factors. brexit, ageing driver profile in the uk, lack of new entrants, and up until quite recently, relatively poor pay compared to other sectors. and that has really driven almost a crisis now as far as lorry driver availability is concerned. the effects of the shortage of lorry drivers have been growing ever more visible, but recruiters fear that shortages of labour — skilled and unskilled — are now widespread across the economy. if companies can't hire enough staff to get all their work done, it is likely to slow down the economic recovery. over the summer, there were more than 20,000 job vacancies advertised in transport and storage. in hotels and restaurants, there were nearly 60,000 advertised, and overall the number of vacancies hit a new record of 1,031i,000.