[Olog-hai]

UK maximum gross vehicle weight for “heavy goods vehicles” (tractor trailers) appears to be just over 70,000 lbs, which is five tons less than the max for US vehicles of similar capacity.

[OttawaFreeper]

I wonder if the trade unions still make it difficult to hire Britons when they are definitely needed?

[mewzilla]

Meanwhile, Hochul in NYS is saying she’ll do the same to replace refusenik heathcare professionals.

What a coinkydink!

[proxy_user]

Is it likely that anyone qualified would be willing to come on a 3-month contract, when their is a shortage of drivers in their country? They are already making plenty of money, and sleeping in their own bed.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

One of my friends is a former HGV driver. Many in the industry have been leaving in droves because haulage firms since Brexit have been acting like nothing has changed and they can still pay their drivers peanuts to work long hours and their employees will just take it. They have failed to adapt to the job market and that is why there is a driver shortage.

Naturally, the Labour party being the party of privilaged xenophilic university educated wokists, is fully behind importing more cheap foreign drivers instead of paying British drivers properly.