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Jun 28, 2012

DRIVERS' SHORTAGE * Europe

* UK - Operators and drivers need to work together to tackle road transport's skill crisis

London,EN,UK -Commercial Motor, by Chris Druce -22 June 2012: -- The head of a new working group formed to tackle the looming threat of a driver shortage has said he will look to include drivers, not just operators and industry representatives, in the process... Road Haulage Association (RHA) chief executive, Geoff Dunning, has been tasked with chairing the Drivers’ Occupational Craft Skills Group, which intends to hold its first meeting next month... Dunning’s call to action comes after a new report from Skills for Logistics highlighted that the UK faces a driver shortage that will hit by 2014. The report, A Looming Driving Shortage?, reveals there has been a 31% decline in LGV tests passed during the past four years to 22,700 in 2010/11... There is also a shortfall in Driver CPC hours ahead of the September 2014 deadline... The figures chime with CM’s own investigation into the issue, which found tests taken have more than halved from 2005-06 to 2009-10 to just 43,094. Those those passed in the same period fell 45% to 21,749...

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