I posted a little while ago about the crisis regarding a shortage of truck drivers in the UK, & asking me to go back
All I can say is I have a clean licence, time motivation, essential experience, am old enough, and have opportunity. I just don't have the stupid [EU legacy nonsense] CPC card (the one that lets you use the licence, that lets you use your driving licence - yep, that one)
I contacted some haulage firms, as did a friend of a friend, all of whom are DESPERATE for drivers.
But, it seems, that hauliers aren't interested in people like me. You know, over 25 years old, more than 2 years experience, and with a clean licence, and the opportunity to help the nation out during this crisis. I didn't even get replies from the ones I either phoned and had a telephone conversation with, or wrote to.
Can you think of any other situations recently where the government and media may have, similarly, magnified a real, but 'overcomeable' problem, into a global crisis?
@bethany Our local garage doesn't seem to have any restrictions at present, although it might be out - I didn't look super closely as I was cycling past few earlier..
Our local, bigger, Tesco had queues of about 60-80 cars.......that was two days ago
@Berrybunchfamily okay, it sounds like maybe things are calming down for you a little now?
Things don't seem too bad up here, though I don't live in a city - things may be different there
@bethany my understanding is that the SE is an utter nightmare......
@bethany but you do have pudding, chips and gravy...anything south of stoke and it becomes watery, gloopy brown stuff, pies and, well, sometimes chips...ask for a pudding and you'll get stared at like you just said you're not getting vaccinated 😜 😂
@Berrybunchfamily 😂 well soon enough you'll be able to enjoy all of that when you guys move up north
@bethany Hows the north doing?
@Berrybunchfamily We are definitely having a shortage of truck drivers here in the states. They say the ships at ports have been waiting two months to be unloaded. It’s showing up at the the stores as empty shelves.
@davereimer the national representatives for British haulage say we're 100,000 drivers short
2 months isn't good! What is the US doing to deal with the issue?
@Berrybunchfamily Nothing that I know of. If it were Trump running things he would have jumped right on it! But Biden doesn’t act till people are screaming about it! And maybe not even then!
@Berrybunchfamily how's the situation with fuel where you're at down south? Any better?