with 5000 visas available, they will also be a raft of longer—term measures. haulage firms welcome anything that might ease the pressure but say there is no silver bullet. i do think this will be helpful and i hope it will be helpful. 5000 doesn't seem a lot when you are talking of deficits of 90,000 by the short but hopefully that drivers short but hopefully that will be reflected on forecourts and on shelves and sort of helped relieve the burden of it. with this visa, do you think there are thousands of foreign drivers who will now want to come and work in the uk? i'd like to hope that they do. what you've got to realise is that all european countries have actually got a driver shortage. other sectors have also find it hard to find enough workers, the business group the cbi said a more proactive approach was needed so the economy but that recovery was insightful. we've got labour shortages notjust in hgv drivers but across the economy, we have supply chain problems, energy problems.