* England - The trucker is becoming an endangered species as
-- There is a shortage of 60,000 drivers and a quarter of truckers are set to retire in the next ten years.. The great British trucker is in danger of disappearing from the nation’s roads, transport bosses have warned... With 85% of all goods consumed in the UK being moved by road, a shortage of lorry drivers threatens to bring the industry to a grinding halt... The 600,000 HGV-licensed drivers currently registered in the UK have an average age of 57, with around a quarter set to retire in the coming decade... Numbers are already short by up to 60,000 drivers but tyre-makers Dunlop and the Road Haulage Association (RHA) say we are headed for crisis unless more new truckers take up the business... Only 17,000 new HGV drivers qualify each year, so over time, the shortage is set to increase... The trucking industry currently employs 2.2 million people - the UK’s fifth largest employer - and is worth £74bn to the UK economy...
(Photo - Road to nowhere: Not enough new drivers are coming into the industry) -- London, EN, UK - The Mirror, by Ben Rossington - 27 Sept 2015Labels: truckers shortage
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