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744. The Rick Thompson Report: Fuel Crisis / Brexit Rant (Autumn 2021)

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Why Aren't There Enough Drivers?

A survey of the lorry drivers association, the road hallage association, put that near the top of the reasons why they haven't got enough drivers. They estimate that they are 100 thousand drivers short of what they need to keep all the supply chains going smoothly. And guess what? The number of er e u drivers drive us, from poland, rumania and everybody else, everywhere else, who went home after breaksit because it wasn’t one of the categories of employment that would allow them to come and work - so they all went home. It's a major reason for a shortage of drivers, which means the supply chains are very vulnerable at the moment. So it

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