Are lorry drivers (or lack of) having an effect on any of your regular supplies?

[Dan]

HGV driver shortage: UK firms embark on the long road to plug the gap

Logistics sector ups its recruitment and training effort but big obstacles lie ahead

www.theguardian.com

Food, beer, toys, medical kit. Why is Britain running out of everything?

Poor pay and conditions for HGV drivers and the loss of many thousands of EU workers are plunging the UKs supply chain into crisis

www.theguardian.com

Minister urges firms to invest in UK-based workers in HGV driver shortage

Business secretary reported as saying foreign labour only offers ‘temporary solution’ as companies face supply chain crisis

www.theguardian.com

I keep reading news, hearing on radio and seeing on telly that the lack of lorry drivers is having more and more of an impact on our daily lives and wont stop any time soon. I was wondering if any of you guys and gals have felt this with suppliers running out of anything you use regularly?

Heard anything through the grapevine?

Started to stock up on basic things you use often to help get around this over Christmas etc?

 

[telectrix]

think dustydazller's got some for sale also. only used once.

 

[nicebutdim]

Border controls have still not been fully implemented yet. New restrictions to be implemented on 1st Oct are likely to cause more disruption.

I very much doubt the NI brexit situation will ever be fully resolved - at least not in the manner one might expect. There are differing expectations on both sides of local politics, neither of which can be fully satisfied and neither of which can be ignored.

Political bluster from Westminister, Dublin and Brussels aside, I'm certain the underlying issues are recognised and that some accomodation will eventually be reached. Ideally it will be one that recognises the fact that soil from GB poses less risk to Irish biodiversity, than soil from the far side of Europe and that the NHS in NI needs to receive supplies of drugs from GB. Hopefully it will also recognise the fact that M&S pork pies will not cause the collapse of political union within Europe.

What should be remembered is that while the NI Protocol is a binding agreement between the UK & EU, and both sides are expected to uphold their obligations, it contains several clauses that legitimately allow either side to take unilateral actions - these can be modest, as we've already seen, but also (in certain circumstances) they allow for more drastic action.

Who knows where it will end up, but I'd wager it'll all be settled in a reasonable manner - whether or not some major rows erupt in the mean time is another matter entirely.

 

[UNG]

I very much doubt the NI brexit situation will ever be fully resolved - at least not in the manner one might expect.

Not until the EU goes bust

 

[pc1966]

I very much doubt the NI brexit situation will ever be fully resolved - at least not in the manner one might expect.

Sadly I think you could say the same about most of NI's politics.

That is the key point, politics is about rules and one-upmanship. Practical and sensible arrangements are usually reserved for the lower larys in society. Like the engineers that actually make things work.

 

[rapparee]

Had some d*ckhead today refuse to sell me a centrifugal pump unless I had a "mainland" UK address and EORI number.

I even offered to arrange my own collection

I'll just route my business through "mainland" Europe where I live, I have an XORI number

No problem.

 

[ruston]

Had some d*ckhead today refuse to sell me a centrifugal pump unless I had a "mainland" UK address and EORI number.

I even offered to arrange my own collection

I'll just route my business through "mainland" Europe where I live, I have an XORI number

No problem.

Are you still in the same beautiful place in God's own country?

 

[rapparee]

Are you still in the same beautiful place in God's own country?

Sure where else would I be ?

Rapparees have stalked that area for many a generation ??

 

[nicebutdim]

Had some d*ckhead today refuse to sell me a centrifugal pump unless I had a "mainland" UK address and EORI number.

I even offered to arrange my own collection

I'll just route my business through "mainland" Europe where I live, I have an XORI number

No problem.

Either EORI or 'XI' EORI should have been fine.

Must be in a great position when he can afford to turn away business.

 

[rapparee]

Either EORI or 'XI' EORI should have been fine.

Must be in a great position when he can afford to turn away business.

I honestly didn't care

I've had to pay Russians to buy me produce out of China before due to different reasons

There's always a way if you throw enough money at something ?

 

[ruston]

Sure where else would I be ?

Rapparees have stalked that area for many a generation ??

And mine not so far away from you.

 

[Dan]

Had some d*ckhead today refuse to sell me a centrifugal pump unless I had a "mainland" UK address and EORI number.

I even offered to arrange my own collection

I'll just route my business through "mainland" Europe where I live, I have an XORI number

No problem.

If you ever need a legitimate UK address and post code etc let me know.

 

[Zerax]

Started to stock up on basic things you use often to help get around this over Christmas etc?

Best not to start a panic buying frenzy... look where the petrol rumours got us !

 

[Zerax]

I know several factories that are trying to recruit semi skilled people for above minimum wage jobs.
most of them are saying, they can’t get people and the locals just don’t want to work.

We need to reduce the level of benefits to make working for a living viable again... I saw a programme on the TV a while ago about a single woman with kids complaining that she couldn't live on benefits (without actually telling us how much she got)... so I did my own research, filling in an on-line system called something like "what am I entitled to.com". I was astonished to see that to get the same level of net income, she'd need to have a job paying £37k per year. The TV programme didn't divulge any details on her skills... but assuming she was not skilled... there's no way she'll ever come off benefits to work in a factory !

 

[FatAlan]

Not sure we have the population to fill these gaps. Fair proportion of factory workers had to claim UC to top up wages. Wages will have to go up but even then I suspect there will be a short fall in labour. Government will have to relax the immigration rules, probably in line with EU border control rules which we chose not to implement back in 2004. Also likely we’ll do conditional trade arrangements with other countries around the world which will allow immigration to fill labour shortages. Here comes a period of big inflation. Boris and his mates don’t really want to see any dents in their profits or any real levelling up.

 

[nicebutdim]

We need to reduce the level of benefits to make working for a living viable again... I saw a programme on the TV a while ago about a single woman with kids complaining that she couldn't live on benefits (without actually telling us how much she got)... so I did my own research, filling in an on-line system called something like "what am I entitled to.com". I was astonished to see that to get the same level of net income, she'd need to have a job paying £37k per year. The TV programme didn't divulge any details on her skills... but assuming she was not skilled... there's no way she'll ever come off benefits to work in a factory !

That's a huge task and I'm not sure if any government will accomplish it, short of us encountering a protracted period of severe economic depression. Just look at the stink kicked up when the £20 lift in UC came to an end and that was only a temporary measure. There seems to be an expectation that everyone is entitled to a significant amount of money and the private sector simply doesn't have broad enough shoulders to sustain this. I honestly don't know what the answer is.