the impact was felt across industries. with a shortage of lorry drivers, abattoir butchers, fruit pickers a nd restau ra nt staff. in hospitality and retail, the hgv driver shortage caused particular problems for suppliers, especially for items shipped in from overseas. it led to empty shelves and apologies to customers. a shortage of drivers means that you might find your bins are collected a bit less frequently than they were in the past, and it s part of a wider problem across the industry of a shortage of drivers, whether that s for bins or restaurants and supermarkets. it s the perfect storm we ve been talking about, so less testing through the pandemic, the exodus of eu skills as a result of brexit. we ve had this thing which is about
to the building so most people were working from home or maybe just once a week coming. that makes it really difficult. experts predicted the pandemic would change our lives in many ways but it has brought some unexpected problems as well. not least a lack of workers. the uk s formal exit from the eu at the start of 2021 added to the complications. many workers who left because a brexit or covid, did not return. the impact was felt across industries. with a shortage of lorry drivers, abattoir butchers, fruit pickers a nd restau ra nt staff. in hospitality and retail, the hgv driver shortage caused particular problems for suppliers, especially for items shipped in from overseas. it led to empty shelves and apologies to customers.
move toward zero carbon. so cutting duty to three and a half percent would save lots of p per litre at the moment, the benefit of that could be if you were to cut duty there is a danger that could be swallowed up by retailers and then everyone pin ends up paying the same price, but if you cut duty it would save around 3p per litre and that would be good for drivers. we know how important it is to drive for the economy. everyone is moving around now driving their cars more depending on the moor, and of course this hits people on low incomes than most. they can t buy petrol very easily, it is too expensive, and if they have no choice but to use their car and they have an incompatible car and they have an incompatible car with then they could be paying a lot more full super unleaded. find lot more full super unleaded. and when ou lot more full super unleaded. and when you drive lot more full super unleaded. and when you drive or not you will feel this as well because most things are tr
in bed, needing their meds. the government estimates 16% of stations are fully stocked, compared with just 10% at the weekend, far below the 40% considered normal. today, the prime minister urged calm. we now are starting to see the situation improve. we re hearing from industry that supplies are coming back onto the forecourts in the normal way. i would just really urge everybody to just go about their business in the normal way and fill up in the normal way when you really need it. at the moment, rocketing demand is overwhelming an industry that, like others, is grappling with a shortage of lorry drivers. we ve had an acute hgv driver shortage for months, which has made supply chains of all kinds super fragile, vulnerable to spikes in consumer demand, and that is why this station is closed and there are shortages at many others around the country. but what do you do to solve a crisis whose main cause is the behaviour
the foothills potentially of it getting a little bit better, but it s a reminder that the underlying problem for this industry and many others is this hgv driver shortage which is the plumbing of so many different industries, whether petrol, food, anything with a short sheu petrol, food, anything with a short shelf life not being able to get from a to b in time because it is a real problem. a lot of scepticism that some of the measures developed so far to help that problem are not getting to the heart of it, so not just this industry but many others remain vulnerable to the kind of shocks we are seeing at the moment. simon, thank you. our political correspondant nick eardley is in westminster. the prime minister after a couple of days has finally broken his silence on this? yes. after a couple of days has finally broken his silence on this? yes, the government broken his silence on this? yes, the government has broken his silence on this? yes, the government has spent broken his