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I see lots of talk of drivers coming from europe or not, drawn on politcal lines.
However there's very little talk about why tens of thousands of people have left the industry and not returned. This has been known about for years, there's reports from select committees over the years highlighting the same problems now, very little recruitment of anyone under 30, poor conditions, frictions at many RDCs, no where decent to stop overnight etc.
So there's lots of talk from RHA etc about how to get through to christmas, but what about the next 10 years, the average age of a wagon driver is 55 years old, who is going to be driving lorries in 2030? What are they doing about that? Perhaps there's been lots of plans laid out?
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