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May 17, 2012

DRIVERS' SHORTAGE * UK

* UK - Facing looming driver shortage 

London,EN,UK -Commercial Motors, by Chris Druce -17 May 2012: -- The UK is facing a looming LGV driver shortage with the need to be CPC accredited by September 2014, and and a relatively old workforce, creating very real risks to recovery... A new report from Skills for Logistics (SfL) titled A looming Driving Shortage? reveals there has been a 31% decline in LGV tests passed (C, C+E, C1, C1+E) during the last four years, with the 2010/11 total standing at to 22,700 according to Department for Transport data... Worse, not all of these licence holders are becoming professional drivers: just over 12,000 of these individuals applied for the now mandatory (for all new drivers) Driver Qualification Card... While there are 1,545,000 LGV licence holders, just 299,000 drive professionally. SfL estimates there is currently a shortfall of 2.7 million Driver CPC training hours, suggesting many older drivers do not intend to continue working past the September 2014 CPC deadline...

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