Lorry driver shortage

[serf]

Grain transport solution......

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=166498728919294

Red Tractor assured !

 

[bluebell]

record numbers of young people going or trying to go to uni, in the papers a few weeks back

 

[bluebell]

the GOVT will write off billions of pounds of student debt because they dont get a job with the minimum amount? The GOVT has really now got to start looking at the UKs labour market, many many young people would be better advised at leaving secondary school to train in a skill such as lorry drivers, welders, electricans, plumbers,etc etc etc etc? do this, then will easily get a job and more important the money is very good? Is this to simple?

 

[ajd132]

the GOVT will write off billions of pounds of student debt because they dont get a job with the minimum amount? The GOVT has really now got to start looking at the UKs labour market, many many young people would be better advised at leaving secondary school to train in a skill such as lorry drivers, welders, electricans, plumbers,etc etc etc etc? do this, then will easily get a job and more important the money is very good? Is this to simple?

I’m 29 and it’s frightening the amount of my contempories stuff school are either working in Costa and pubs after getting degrees or still in further education seemingly doing endless degrees.

 

[Daniel]

I’m 29 and it’s frightening the amount of my contempories stuff school are either working in Costa and pubs after getting degrees or still in further education seemingly doing endless degrees.

Saw my wife’s cousin recently, just left university with a sociology degree and applying to get on a trainee civil servants scheme.

I bet the scheme is hugely oversubscribed and a job at Tesco awaits.

 

[ColinV6]

FFS I only did my B+E last year and now it seems like I may have wasted my time and money!

 

[Lincoln75]

the GOVT will write off billions of pounds of student debt because they dont get a job with the minimum amount? The GOVT has really now got to start looking at the UKs labour market, many many young people would be better advised at leaving secondary school to train in a skill such as lorry drivers, welders, electricans, plumbers,etc etc etc etc? do this, then will easily get a job and more important the money is very good? Is this to simple?

Thousands do train in a skills such as lorry drivers, welders, electricians, plumbers, etc the latter three usually in tech college which is subsidised/free so costs the tax payer money as its not repayable by the student.
Students who do well do pay their loans off and its deducted from source out of their pay.

 

[Lincoln75]

FFS I only did my B+E last year and now it seems like I may have wasted my time and money!

Education is never a waste , those who say it is are generally thicko`s.

" Graduate Labour Market Statistics show that, in 2017, English-domiciled graduates and postgraduates had higher employment rates than non-graduates and the average, working age graduate earned £10,000 per year more than the average non-graduate."

 

[Lincoln75]

I’m 29 and it’s frightening the amount of my contempories stuff school are either working in Costa and pubs after getting degrees or still in further education seemingly doing endless degrees.

You cant take endless degree`s unless you finance it yourself , there is only finance available in England for one degree then part assistance with a Masters , working in shops or pubs whilst studying is a good thing.

 

[Andy26]

My Neighbour who I combine for can't now get a Camgrain lorry until Monday 23rd August!!

Same here, it's been getting worse the past three years, but that's just a reflection on the general shortage of bulkers and drivers.

@ajd132 do Camgrain allow tractor and trailer deliveries?

 

[Hilly]

I’m 29 and it’s frightening the amount of my contempories stuff school are either working in Costa and pubs after getting degrees or still in further education seemingly doing endless degrees.

We need university’s to staff McDonald’s , I’ve a relation for several degrees etc works in kfc ffs, strong young man just wasting his life imo but it’s his to waste .

 

[ajd132]

Same here, it's been getting worse the past three years, but that's just a reflection on the general shortage of bulkers and drivers.

@ajd132 do Camgrain allow tractor and trailer deliveries?

Yes they do and are encouraging people local to stores to do that to try and ease the pressure abit.

 

[steveR]

Shame they wouldn’t give farmers class 1 and help the situation out , been looking at doing it recently stuff that what a carry on yet I can drive a fastrac nearly as big on car licence absolute joke .

As one of the "old farts" here, I am old enough to recall a previous shortage of trucks for moving grain at, and immediately post-harvest some years ago.

I needed 8 wheelers to move Linseed seed urgently to Downham Market from Shropshire. My regular chap was unavailable and he had no one else we could use, so I contacted a local guy who would rent his Fastrac and a 14t trailer.... I reckoned me and my "trainee" could do two loads a day... Just about cost effective for a high value crop!

Can see something similiar happening this time to get grain into stores....

 

[Hilly]

As one of the "old farts" here, I am old enough to recall a previous shortage of trucks for moving grain at, and immediately post-harvest some years ago.

I needed 8 wheelers to move Linseed seed urgently to Downham Market from Shropshire. My regular chap was unavailable and he had no one else we could use, so I contacted a local guy who would rent his Fastrac and a 14t trailer.... I reckoned me and my "trainee" could do two loads a day... Just about cost effective for a high value crop!

Can see something similiar happening this time to get grain into stores....

All they need to do is give people who have experiance of large vehicles a simple one day training course with a test and if pass your away .

 

[Lincoln75]

We need university’s to staff McDonald’s , I’ve a relation for several degrees etc works in kfc ffs, strong young man just wasting his life imo but it’s his to waste .

I dont believe they have several degree`s.

 

[Hilly]

I dont believe they have several degree`s.

My relative has two I think not sure I don’t take much notice no interest in a till jockey in kfc

 

[Boohoo]

All they need to do is give people who have experiance of large vehicles a simple one day training course with a test and if pass your away .

That would just clog the test centres up with people who are sure to fail. Very few would manage to pass C, never mind C+E within a day.

 

[Hilly]

That would just clog the test centres up with people who are sure to fail. Very few would manage to pass C, never mind C+E within a day.

Oh well they can haul with a 65kph he fendt grossing over thirty ton on a car licence ! Personally I’d rather see them in wagon .

 

[Lincoln75]

My relative has two I think not sure I don’t take much notice no interest in a till jockey in kfc

So you just made it up as you didnt have an education , you sound insecure , some people do well with no education.

 

[Boohoo]

Oh well they can haul with a 65kph he fendt grossing over thirty ton on a car licence ! Personally I’d rather see them in wagon .

I'd rather they chose not to break the law! There's no way the standard for C and C+E should be lowered to accommodate those who currently think the rules don't apply to them.