LGV driver recruitment issues are highlighted on the BBC website
Unsocial hours being cited as one cause;
'not getting home for tea' is the phrase used
Why not mention;
- the treatment that drivers get in RDCs, having to wait hours to unload, not being allowed to stay in cabs for that time, where they can relax/sleep/watch some TV/catch up on paperwork
-the way they are cut-up/cut-off/treated by other motorists
just like cyclists!!
- the risk of load/fuel theft, when parked up in a layby somewhere
- for those who travel to the continent, the fines they face if illegal immigrants are found in/on their vehicles
*
There's no mention of the lack of facilities/parking/toilets for drivers, who (as we'll all have seen) have to park in laybys, & try to sleep whilst traffic passes feet away '24 hours a day'
When femaie drivers are interviewed, they're asked about toilet/shower facilities, to their credit, they tend to reply
"the men have the same problem, why do you never ask them? (or words to that effect)
Imagine the uproar if the sales-reps/travelling managers whose goods they are carrying had to do the same & sleep at the side of the road/using a bottle to have a widdle/etc....!?!
(or risking dehydration/kidney issues by not drinking enough, due to not wanting to use that bottle)
Remember that key phrase
"If You Bought It, A Truck Brought It"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8lgmnn8y2o.amp
* One example being the company EM Rogers. who were embroiled in a row over fines
Mr Rogers said his company was fined £30,000 over the incident on 10 November, while the driver of the vehicle was fined £36,000.
Mr Rogers said hauliers were "actually the victims" and that "vulnerable lorry drivers" were being targeted by organised gangs.
"Can you imagine having your house broken into at night and then being fined for it?" he said.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-68549722
