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?
@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.
@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!
@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?