• Following our pot boiler the other week on recruitment
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problems, scores of concerned readers have been writing in saying "what's the matter? I'm available!" Has Commercial Motor gone bonkers, they ask, or were we writing about a shortage of experienced professionals in the heart transplant business, instead of the transport industry?
One reader epitomises the dilemma. has experience, a good '• and excellent prospects tor the future but he wants to move onwards and upwards. The trouble is, he cannot. "I recently joined three national recruitment agencies," he writes, "but not one of them has offered me an interview in the past six months."
He even wrote to one of the companies mentioned in the article, asking them for a suit able promotion. That firm turned him down. "Other friends of mine have experienced the same problem," he says. At present, he is a distribution manager based in Essex responsible for an annual budget of £1.3 million and a fleet of 20 trucks and 11 trailers. He has been in the industry for nearly 14 years. Are there any takers out there?
Another reader rang me from the Stockport area to say that nowadays his local shopping centre seems to be a meeting place for unemployed transport managers. Nearly everyone who contacted me said that the transport industry has no-one to blame but itself for job shortages — it has never paid its professionals properly.
What is happening out there? The Hawk wants to know.