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a fuel crisis and one of the richest nations federal pumps and the u. k. are running dry because the truck drivers to deliver the fuel is bringing that to blame and house basically the deeper problems within the whole industry is ah walk into the program. i'm in ron con, it's not something you see every day in the u. k. dr. is waiting hours in long queues to full that calls at the petrol station. the government says panic. buying is partly to blame for the pumps, running dry fuel companies say there's no shortage. petro just

a lack of tanka drive is to deliver supplies. the government has placed soldiers on standby to help, and it's grunting temporary work visas to 5000 truck drivers. but industry leaders say the measures aren't enough to solve the crisis. andrew simmons reports from london a new working weekend. this isn't the normal london morning. good luck. the fuel station here ran dry 2 days ago. it's been waiting for this moment. tanka drivers are in short supply, not the fuel, whatever the results, the same misery for some not kind of buying ada by the top. she ran out of fuel 100 meters from the petro pumps, after a search that started in the early hours. and i was very emotional, so i can, i cried. i tried all these to be necessary. i cry that i feel probably look some people who are going for assuming their wife

lives, disrupted this driving instructor trying to get fuel to prepare his learners for their driving tests. about 56, this is coming up between now and next week. so really slowly terrified what might happen in some fruit for these guys. so i've been going around like headless chicken about linda. nothing. an opinion polls suggest that more than 60 percent of the voters feel the government is miss handling the situation. and some of the messaging for ministers isn't helping the public mood. the only reason that we have an issue at the moment with some petrol stations, not petula, for course, is that people are buying petra and they wouldn't. the most important thing everyone can do is just get back to normal, fill that cause up as they normally would and not by the actual if they needed, it would seem to be wishful thinking that this crisis is going to go away without government action crisis. what crisis has been the government stance up to now?

now it's changing because people don't like being referred to as buyers. in a situation such as this, there is a tide of public defense. and so the pressure is on the government as the tension on the for courts increases, some companies have introduced rationing competition measures have been stopped, so the few companies can operate on logistics. another move the government has made is to try backing up u. k. tank drivers with foreigners, no longer able to work here because of that short term. these is, are available for 5000 foreign truck drivers. it isn't guaranteed to work. andrew simmons, which is 0 london and the lack of truck drivers is contributing to the case worse. a shortage of basic goods since 19 seventies. from building materials to medical supplies and groceries, many items are in short supply. supermarket warning of empty shells ahead of christmas. the pandemic in britain's departure from the e. u. of also disrupted supply chains. now the shortage of truck drivers is

a problem across europe as well. charles, what analysts say poland was short of more than a 120000 dr. is la ship. germany needed another 60000. the industry has been struggling to attract new workers. as many leave for jobs with better pay and working conditions. since the start of the pandemic, the industry has faced more price to deliver essential goods. the huge growth of online shopping has also had an impact. ah, let's bring it, i guess in edinburgh. doug, you ranking a laurie driver and the editor of truck and drive the magazine in london, vicky price chief economic adviser at the center. i can make some business research and in level timmy di i can roy, senior lecturer in procurement and supply chain management, a live full john moore's university. welcome to the program. let's begin in edinburgh 1st with doug rankin. the government says this is panic. buying the holy

ginger, she says actually this is a lack of drive is due to briggs, what's the truth of it at lack of drive of blacks that were grossly over, simplify the situation of talking about the fuel crisis at the moment, but seems to be the public because collectively going all 4 and one is not really affecting scotland. curiously, i've noticed and time called dr. o's helped upset. busy application for a d, off to the level of benefits such as petro and diesel. and i don't understand where a huge number of suddenly disappeared to one week to the next was originally i'll problem associated to b p and nothing that i still sort of tank of industry and the supply of fuel. so something's got very blowing, propulsion in the press and the media with what's going on because it doesn't shortage of fuel. it's no difficult to keep the fuel stations replenished and people seem to be continually panic,

buying the message doesn't get to tell them not to do so. it's very strange and unusual times right now as a driver because the driver shortage situation does keep evolving from one week to the next a. but what is the reason behind that dr. short is i still are really understand is it a lack of dr. is, is it simply because dr is from the you just want to come to the you k anymore? because why would they do this too much pipe work? breakfast isn't a major factor and the driver shortage. it's played a tenant, but those ostrich number of different factors which have all come to play at the same time and that was the tax change. i felt a 5 which made a lot more. busy difficult for drivers to operate on a self employed basis and it made a lot less. busy attractive, so the last driver there was a driver, c p. c. deadline and 2019 reports lost a lot of older drivers to the industry because a lot of drivers need to do that. if i was training that way,

every 5 years to keep the license and a lot of guys can just decided about going to bottle and cut all of us and a lot done. so my pre paid to so the last a lot of old drivers and they wouldn't be full time, but we'd take up a lot of the slack and they would just see it. and. and those also last year, the d v l a n d v i said don't tools very correctly. and they're one of the panoramic and we had no nerd drivers coming through last year at all. and nobody, nobody was passing driver's. busy tests, so those are a lot of different factors and that you could also say that those people, if you want to become a lot. busy a drive and it's very expensive. so people who want to can't do, and that isn't enough support. and also the industry has an image problem by the enough people wanting to become lot a high volume. i about the over 300 test spots for vocational driving tests. not

taken up, but the d v l a last week and the 100 before bought hundreds before lunch. and the government is going to create a best saying those needing to not be fax truck capacity, but using the ministry of defense. but they don't have enough people wanting to take the test to the moment or able to create a curious one from outside. i'd like to know a little bit more about but just to pen up thing on one simple fact that it's not a church comp stated, it was multiple things all going on. not the same time a perfect storm if you will. vicki price in london, urine economic advisor. what do you think of the advice coming out from the british government? we're going to have 5000 temporary visas that's going to magically sought out the problem. surely. what we seem to have is a shortage of about a 100000 laurie drive as are all the reasons have just been explained for breakfast, play depart as well. and it's interesting if you talk to the retailers who have been there shouting about us for quite some time. and if you know,

talk to the general distribution companies as well. i, which are suffering right now from shortages. people prepared to drive the trucks that should really be moving things around. breakfast is actually being blamed quite a lot and the worries are the, the, the reaction from the government so far has been a bit slow. and very bitty, in other words, you know, if you have a 100 hassan bacon says, and you bring in 5000 in us with some special licenses and hope that they will do the job for 3 months. and then go back because they're meant to be temporary to the problem simply isn't going to be solved. so it is an issue plot, of course the way in which trade is happening across and what you find is, are not very many foreign lori drivers want to come in, or even in a business is want to engage because they can't do what they did before. in the u. k, they don't have the freedom to move around to pick things and move them somewhere else . which means that you've had that shortage there to the unwillingness for people

to take on a load and bring you over to the u. k. which said, deprive you, of course, all workers who might be able to drive other tracks or even their own truck and take things around because of the change in the cab, what does room she can do that very easily any longer because we are outside the you have it, i am just going to come to you in just a moment. i want to bring in doug you rankin hit one of the interesting things about this is this temporary visa situation. meghan issue 5000 temporary truck driver licenses. they get a last 3 months, but i was on a couple of romanian chat platforms where they were reacting to this, this particular in romania where they were like, why would we build that? why would we go for just 3 months? i've got a good job here. not going to give it up just to go and help the bread. so yeah, it says the holiday, the roads college association has been asking for a long time to finish, you know, ready to be ready to get lee about and from. busy europe, we need to get people on,

but we've been asking the question over and over again. who is wanting to come here for us long lane of drive us. we are prepared to come over to the u. k. and how does that going to walk of it? how on earth are we going to get people who are going to leave the job and stay for example romania and come here for 3 months. and then what happens? i've got to go home again. did they have a job to go back to and remain because perhaps what employers are going to look very favorably on them for just upping stacks, what are they going to love? it doesn't make any sense at all the short tell. these are facts it's. it's bizarre if they want to go and look to get dr us from other countries. i don't think you've got to look beyond. busy that needs to be, it's not you're not going to get a correct fact. so, you know, you're probably looking at asia and you're probably looking at africa to get drivers to want to emigrate to come here and live parliament like

i don't like those us all desire from europe to come here. this is simpler and that's visa. let's, let's, so i wanna, i wanna, i want to put that thought to me die. i can, roy, have you got, you got a fascinating job title, procurement and supply chain management. now as i understand it, supply chain management as it currently stands means everything is done quite last minute. you bring in your goods, you take them to a on the midlands, and then you get another truck and you drive that full of goods from the midlands into europe. but briggs is paid to that. the supply chain was always last minute and breaks. it doesn't allow for that, is that right? yes, i think these big struck those soccer mixed with the supply chain within the country . it's linked also to availability of the phases of the supply chain. so logistics,

transportation, or possibly take to goods, movements of goods and services, whatever country and these are linked up to different life, my delivery. so for instance, some of the shortages in, in, in truck drivers. you know, it's not possible way shot. that means people just reacting to the needs and that's what's posted the product bind. so looking for station all supermarket have delays, the liberal sciences and the population, you know, don't know when decent will not stop. don't know whether this will continue the ripple effect and also be felt in order to be economy. so, but this is not just one factor which will look at it from the systemic point of view. there are different factors playing out here. and the supply chain cannot be exempt from vicky price. one of the reasons, one of the things that makes the supply chain work is this idea that immigration

actually does work in certain sectors of the british a economy. i'm the son of immigrants. my father is incredibly suspicious. he came from pockets on to the u. k. because he was asked to do so by the brisk of him by them because there were certain amount of jobs that the british people just didn't want to. dick, there was the wind rush generation of back british people from the caribbean, who came over some of those have now being deported back to jamaica. there's a miss trust here of the british governments and actual promise on whether they'll deliver on these. these are like these visas in this list, idea of immigration making things. what? so that's putting people off from coming here and working. it's also mixed messaging is going on and i could make advice. i mean, are you shaking your head the way the messaging is coming out from the brits? yes, a little bit. i have to say communication has been, it is best. but as interesting thing is, if you look at the evidence,

migration has been a great contributory factor to the growth of you can call me. and of course, joining the you has also been beneficial from that point of view because businesses have been able to expand without worrying too much about whether get the labor from . and of course yes, in some areas, perhaps wages were kept slightly lower than they otherwise should have been, but not very many. in fact, the evidence suggest that overall is, hasn't happened across the economy, but it has help companies and respond to the demand that it's also caused helped a grow the economy will generally, and therefore create more jobs. so we had very low unemployment as despite the fact that with so many immigrants coming in and working and many of them become permanent from, from the you. and that now the fact that we've left is giving a bit of a shock to the economy to which we haven't quite adopted. and the messaging, therefore, is really quite important. people are not really against integration is started to realize we need them in so many areas such as know right now the cast extra re

streaming for more labor as well as it isn't just lori drive us who generally get a lot more than people who work in the cast sector, but it seems to have been spreading across including the construction sector. so it's not good for the economy, the short term and what the o. c. d has said you're going to thank you for it from corporation development that has been looking at inflation expectations based countries. it has highlighted the u. k as a one country, which is good to see more of a push in terms of inflation because of the supply chain constraints that he would just discussing earlier. which are going to be much tougher in the u. k than perhaps in other places which are also having some of those issues. but not to the extent we're explain them here rank in the british tabloids having a field day with this. i keep reading headlines that suggest that truck drivers that are being offered signing on bonuses, of like 2000 pounds, the wages of like 70066270000 pounds a year for

a truck driver. how much of that is true and how much of that is actually going to work like, can you bribe the people into becoming truck drivers quickly? i think a lot of those huge wage forgot her absolute nonsense. that's not. busy what i'm hearing from. busy drivers, i speak turn on the garden level, there's a lot of suspicious figures there. got bonded by very large companies and you know, the doing one phase in 2000 and golden handshake sees big firms. but we can also find a lot of places that are not good companies won't fall in many cases a lot. busy it does a lot of undesirable unpleasant lot. busy of driving jobs, which companies are struggling to get people do on the other putting these by wage goes about, but that's not the whole part of it. there's other conditions that drive us of us are pretty terrible. there's been nothing said from the government, a tall and proving parking facilities for dr. ho's grant because it's difficult for

some of them to get safe place to park at night and rest. and again, the money, the money saying i'm very suspicious of and i don't believe it goes for goes well translate into sort of real bottle. busy just quickly, just quickly end up getting up just quickly to get how long to actually say, say if i wanted to become a truck driver in the u. k. now, how long before i make that decision to actually getting into truck and driving like how long does that take? well, it, it depends correctly the deed of processing your license at the moment because they are also culpable, and they've been very slow getting licenses back to people. i know someone at the moment who had an accident and lost a license, due to medical asher and no offense and well in the past and ready to go and have been waiting months and months for the license back. and but if you want to be

a truck driver, but all several steps you need to jump through, they are trying to fast track people for so you can go straight from driving a car turn. i'll talk you later, lot a. but as so, but also several steps, you guys go through, you've got medical and you've got to go into the field a test or how's the perfection test? you're going to do your drive and run the process, changing the reverse thing maneuver. but you can't just store and do it and then to be driving, not even close at crater conrad to process ok. hey me. dire in liverpool is throwing money and short cuts as doug was saying, short cuts into in the exam test. be a solution to this problem because that's what the government seems to be done. unfortunately, no, it's just a momentum incentive. you know, people that come on gets more money and then you become a truck. and i think some of the hundreds of at the come in the truck drive out

within 24 hours. so within 2 weeks i've been set. lot of this, this is true, but i think what is important now is for the different stakeholders in the logistics on transport ought to be speaking to get so we want to bid on speaking to each other at the moment you hear different response from the dog man, you know, trying to put together a soft truck process for you to become a truck right much. we can walk inside so we need all the state, including professional. they need to do talk logistics on transport. that need to walk together and find a solution to the spot. i to be this one. that's the walk in condition of the drive. i needs the job, you know, on a truck to so even young people in england, a lot of the truck drive us. they eat or flip over in their property don't rest so there's need for improve what condition for them and the government needs to

intervene to, to bring out new employment policies that are targeted progress. and some of the starting is that the workers are facing vicki. price in london to make a terrible pun, but you can see this truck coming a mile off, couldn't you? you knew the ones you'd left for exit. you are going to have problems in supply chain in getting goods into the u. k. because borders had changed. absolutely, and of course the government here is doing the realize that except put any extra pressures, of course on any inputs coming in and therefore a new trucks of come in, fully loaded. that would also make things considerably worse in terms of getting goods to where there should be going. and we have, in fact, waived the, the rights of we've had to impose this restrictions to next year now. so already that's been a delay in that a number of times this year. so it's understood that it's an issue,

though we've done that in terms of impulse. we don't seem to have really accidents it all fast in dealing with the other problems, all the supply chain to have been effective, so substantially by all the shortages that we have been discussing today. so yes, this truck was coming on. we should have edged out of the way, or at least some something to slow the speeds. but for the moment i'm afraid which look like we are fighting one panic after another and not fantastic to a well. there are people who saying that is just transitory issues. and it will all be solved, but it looks to me and to any column, we've seen that as either pretty negative in terms of what it might mean for growth . the, the new, the short term we've seen g d p here already slowing down the spam spike. we've had since the opening up has slowed down very significantly, and i'm suspecting that when we get the data was september is not going to be

particularly good either because of the shortages and also the price increases. doug rankin again in london, vicky prices said a lot of people think this is transit tree and it's going to be sold. but i do you think that a lot of people are going to have a miserable christmas because this is not going to finish in the next 3 months. this is going to take a while. i don't see my people necessarily need to have a miserable christmas unless the media certain sections of a determine to object to the public enough to make sure that we did them perhaps that were well because if they want to stop panicking, people matter. and so that already are buying a frozen tough case before. busy the how the reading stuff, even office hours could happen. busy but it's not a transit thing that needs to be kind of some fundamental changes in the way the road transport operates your care, the industries got to get people and to drive these trucks,

those terrible image problem and then destroy. and there's also why you don't problem and the you care of getting people to be interested in vocational qualifications as well. because you can get a struggle for people. companies to get people want to be a truck mechanics and tradesman in general. what's something that's a struggle as well as getting drive and to get people to, to get people to how would we make the whole agenda stay more attractive? how do we get people to say yes, i think i want to drive a truck because even but he loves focus or money getting funded. other people still don't want to do for an awful long time. and lot of these have been like seen is done pay smelly things that are nuisance, that getting your way when you want to go work and things. and then the street has got a big problem. busy and improving the damage and, and also the conditions as well, but goes back to the government because i think

a lot that needs to do to force their parking facilities for supermarkets to treat drivers because i could go off as a whole separate area. unfortunately though, here we are all running out because we are running out of time. it's a fascinating discussion and one of the things i think is coming out of this is that we need more truck drivers. i want to thank all i guess, doug you rankin vicki price and tell me diet conroy and i want to thank you to for watching. you can see the program again any time by visiting our website. i'll just don't com and for further discussion, go to our facebook page at facebook dot com forward slash ha inside story. and you can also join the conversation on twitter. we are at a inside story from me and ron kon and the whole team hit by for now. the

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