Tag: lorry drivers

A professional body representing GPs has warned that the Brexit-caused shortages in HGV drivers will massively impact on practices and patients.

Industry figures said a shortfall of 90,000 lorry drivers was placing "unsustainable" pressure on supply chains.

A Scottish pub group said some businesses “will go bankrupt this week and next week because of this distribution chaos”.

“Incredible Brexit blinkers,” Labour's Andrew Adonis said.

“This is an admission that far from ‘teething problems’, the government expects supply problems from their rushed Brexit deal to continue indefinitely," Best for Britain's Naomi Smith said.

But around 2,000 military drivers are set to attempt replacing a huge shortage of 100,000 lorry drivers, previously made up mainly of Eastern Europeans.

“My brother-in-law worked as a lorry driver up until this Saturday, he resigned. A lot of my friends who are lorry drivers left the UK as soon as the new Brexit rules came into place.”

“If you think things are bad now it’ll just make things so much worse,” a Road Haulage Association spokesperson said.

A poultry magnate has warned Brexit and Covid may lead to the worst food shortages since the war.