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Economy
BBC comes under fire for 'pretending driver crisis is all about Brexit' and ignoring the fact shortages have affected countries throughout the world
2021-09-27
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Figures show around 400,000 drivers are needed across mainland Europe

  • Huge numbers are also required in other countries like the US and China

  • Former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith accused the BBC of selective reporting
Posted by:Skidmark

#5  I left the Navy after 10 years because I didn’t want be away from home for 5 or more years of the ten remaining. Truckers keep this country moving but at a personal cost. Think about it the time it takes
driving a load to across country from Chicago in to LA and then returning.. There is a country song about driving a truck through a motel. “He didn’t hit the breaks and he was shifting gears.”
Posted by: Gramps Cooky   2021-09-27 13:53  

#4  A lot of people are vacating jobs that are mandating jobs in all kinds of categories.
Posted by: warthogswife   2021-09-27 12:52  

#3  A cousin who was police investigator once told me "If you look hard enough for something, you'll find it, even if it's not there."
Posted by: ed in texas   2021-09-27 11:27  

#2  When we stop flooding the liw-end market with illegals and the high-end market with indentured H1B servants -- AND when corporations finally begin training people again, offering them some security and a reasonable career path -- then and only then will we see Americans acquiring skills needed to ease skilled labor shortages.
Posted by: Faux Drapeau   2021-09-27 04:33  

#1  You tell people that "Only imbeciles do manual labor" for 2-to-3 generations and what do you get? Skilled machinists, welders, drivers and so forth and so on are harder and harder to find.
Posted by: magpie   2021-09-27 04:23  

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