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TRUCKING INDUSTRY NEWS * UK - Recruitment trends suggest economy improving
An increase of 183 per cent on LGV driver vacancies
London,EN,UK -HGV UK -August 5, 2010: -- Right4staff has recorded a 25 per cent increase in the demand for temporary drivers across its UK network... Melissa Carslake, Managing Director (South) at Right4staff, believes these figures mean that industry is starting to make a coming back as the economy slowly improves... Right4staff’s increased demand is backed up by figures from Skills For Logistics. They found that in May 2009 there was a total of 4,695 LGV driver vacancies but a year later in May 2010 this had risen to 13,299 vacancies – an increase of 183 per cent... (Photo: from BBC News: A break halfway)* UK - Attracting women to the driving profession
London,EN,UK -HGV UK -August 9, 2010: -- It is well known that the lack of drivers has been a major problem for the European transport industry, but, of late, the financial crisis and global recession have made the issue somewhat less urgent. However, when the economy turns around the subject will once again be high on the agenda, so in order to secure the profession’s future a broader recruitment base is needed. A change of attitude within the industry is needed to ensure that the profession will become more appealing for women too... Women truck drivers are a rarity. For example, in Great Britain there are around 309,100 drivers of heavy trucks and less than one per cent of them are women, according to figures for 2008 produced by the independent organisation Skills for Logistics. In 2006, Britain had a shortage of 46,000 drivers and Skills for Logistics, which works in parallel with the transport industry, issued a widespread appeal in order to attract more drivers, both young people and women... The European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) has decided that by 2013, all member associations must take the necessary measures, both at national and at company level, to recruit substantially more women to the transport industry than is the case today... (Picture from rhian.jpg.display: A lady truck driver with your baby)* UK - Stobart boss calls for empty running tax
London,EN,UK -Road Transport, by Christopher Walton -3 August 2010: -- Stobart Group has reiterated its call to the new government for a tax on empty running... Andrew Tinkler, CEO of Stobart Group, says that while the company was waiting to see more details behind a lorry road user charge, which the Department for Transport has promised to introduce during the course of the current government, it would be of benefit to every operator to see the charge reduce empty running... He believes that Stobart Group accounts for just 2% of all commercial vehicles on UK roads at any one time and the firm has managed to raise its utilisation levels to 85%, way above the industry average of around 73%-74%... (Photo from givinglots.co.uk: Eddie Stobart Truck)Labels: trucking industry news UK
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