Problem is, the more the media amplify the issue the more people who were previously applying common sense/holding their nerve are now cracking they won't be able to get to work/the kids to school and will go out. Can see it getting worse tomorrow before everybody goes back to work/school on Monday.
Motorway services are the answer, 10p a litre more (and the £3+ to get back off the toll road), just expensive enough to keep the hoarders away and I put just enough in to see me through next week
They won’t get paid that well at all. Probably because hardly any will come
I doubt there are hundreds of lorry drivers and chicken pluckers sitting idle in Europe so I’ll be very surprised to see many uprooting themselves for a shorter stay than a series of Strictly! Presumably Boris has a plan (other than cutting UC by £20) to ensure enough Brits will be waiting to start work straight away in the New Year, or maybe not…
The fuel crisis is an entirely media stimulated frenzy, it has nothing to do with Brexit or anything else people want to attribute it to
The driver shortage does though, and that's what started it.
Pretty sure the same amount of tanker drivers were delivering fuel last week/last month with no issues.
I'm reading lots of comments by tanker drivers saying there is no shortage of fuel or drivers
5 petrol stations. At any given time I’m presuming there will be petrol stations in the UK that run out of fuel regardless of staff shortages, Brexit or a pandemic.
I Googled her name to make sure it wasn't satire before posting!
No that's not the case, yes Brexit has contributed to the driver shortage, that is indisputable but normally we have between 40 and 45 thousand new LGV drivers in the Uk, but in the last 18 months, due to circumstances beyond everyone's control we have only managed about15 thousand (going by memory so please don't quote me), trust me, with fuel, if there was a major supply problem the army would be out.
