scoffcruddle
Well-Known Member
There should be grants for youngsters regards hgv licensing,I regret not doing mine.There's a good reason for the shortage of truck drivers. There used to be a heap of lads up until 6 or 7 years ago with their own trucks hacking for lads but then these fellas decided to replace and undercut all the small time haulers with cheap drivers from eastern Europe and Russia. Back to the present day all these foreigners are moving back home or are getting gate and now there's a scarcity of drivers and trucks.
To put it plainly big hauliers started paying peanuts and didn't expect to get monkeys so now they're putting rates back up and trying to get the lads that they put out of buissnes back working for them and of course they won't after getting stabbed in the back like that. I have no remorse for them big haulers winging about drivers because they brought it upon themselves.
Another thing that doesn't help is you'll have to spend near 3000 before you can get your artic lisence.