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Originally Posted by Carth
Too much red tape and alterations to the working practice of HGV driving?
In the past I've done delivery jobs using a 7.5T van, used to enjoy it, but then you were suddenly required to have certificates for this that and the other, paid for by yourself of course, which made it not worth doing when there were other joba around that didn't try to hamstring you  |
I would think the above is a possibility, I think potentially higher up in the priority would be those who are engaged in the practice known as 'tramping' whereby drivers are away from home multiple days.
I've done my time travelling for work, and whilst enjoyable I'm glad it's no longer a consistent requirement.
Regardless, of the above we get to ask some interesting questions.
1. How do you entice existing licenced drivers who are currently in other fields of employment back into the profession?
2. How do you make the profession appealing to potential new hires?
3. If 1 & 2 cannot be achieved, how do we fill the gap until such time as self driving/automated HGV's become 'a thing' ?