HGV driver shortage sees UK haulage boss defend EU referendum 'Brexit is a good thing!'
A HAULAGE industry boss has defended the decision to leave the EU amid a shortage of HGV drivers.
Brexit has been defended as a "good thing" for Britain's HGV driving industry amid attempts to link the EU referendum result with supplies chain problems and shortages at petrol stations. Andrew Eburne, managing director of J Coates HGV Services Ltd, has told GB News that, far from the lorry driver shortage being a result of the UK leaving the bloc, Britons are "incentivised" to apply for driver jobs as pay has increased.
Mr Eburne told GB News: "Brexit is a good thing for the industry or a good thing for the country as regards to the driver situation.
"Before Brexit, the industry was relying on cheap labour coming in from Europe. No doubt about that.
"Which then prevented or it did not incentivise UK citizens to do those jobs because they didn't feel that it was paid enough.
"Now the wages are going through the roof we get inundated with phone calls with people wanting to be drivers." Express.
