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"Companies are already having trouble with the system,” one reporter said.

EU drivers have seen their workload increasing in post-Brexit Britain but not their salaries.

The UK is now solving its HGV crisis by employing offenders who used lorries to import drugs.

“If you were designing a visa system to fail, you would design something like this," the Road Haulage Association policy director has said.

"Anyone with an ounce of common sense would know that if you restrict movement, put in trade barriers and generally make hard-working people feel unwelcome, a lot of them will decide they're better off not being here at all."

The union also said recent proposals from the UK government will "legalise exploitation".

“I feel fit and healthy, but I’m not sure I should be driving great big artics at my age," the former HGV driver said.

Critics said the scramble for HGV drivers was the latest example of the government's "staggering incompetence".

In an announcement on Friday evening, the government said 300 fuel drivers would be able to come to the UK from overseas “immediately” under a bespoke temporary visa which will last until March.