traffic chaos as a result. petrol is on zero, i am not going to make it, people have half a tank and they are going in there to fill out. it is ridiculous. i am on a red and i need to get petrol as soon as possible. eg group which operates 400 sites has set a £30 per customer limit. the initial problems experienced by bp were due to not having enough lorry drivers, a wider pre existing issue that has worsened during the pandemic and following brexit. four months, the government resisted calls from freight and retail groups to introduce temporary visas for foreign drivers but it is now expected to announce a scheme tomorrow 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
germany where voters will elect a new chancellor to replace angela merkel tomorrow. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will have tomorrow. nigel nelson is here, and also the political commentatorjo phillips. a few technical problems have been affecting us today so we have a small selection of different pages. we begin with the sunday telegraph. borisjohnson is urging haulage firms to raise pay for drivers, and the mail on sunday is blaming the boss of the road haulage association. it is the labour party
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.
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are parked up and going nowhere. haulage firms, like this leicestershire logistics company, just can t find enough drivers. it s worrying. i mean, the vehicles arejust sitting there because we haven t got the drivers. and there s simply a large number of drivers that went back to europe during brexit, we ve had covid which has caused us severe problems with the lack of training that s available, and that s just a few of the things, really. well, we re seeing an impact right across the board, from manufacturing, factories, farming and of course supermarkets which is probably the one thing that most people notice the most. and so translink is taking action. kev is the latest employee here to benefit from free training courses to help tackle the chronic shortage of hgv drivers. i ve grown up in the transport industry all my life and obviously companies helping individuals, cause obviously it s a costly thing to get into but it s a good thing to help the country out, really. but many in t