FTA's survey pinpoints new driver shortages
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The Freight Transport Association is forecasting a shortfall of 80,000 drivers after the introduction of the Working Time Directive.
The news follows the results of an FTA survey, which showed that multi-drop drivers working on urban deliveries are proving the most 4,0 difficult for firms to find and retain, The Quarterly Transport
Activity Survey
(QTAS) questioned the asso
ciation's 11,000 members. It also revealed widespread concern over the availability of trunking drivers. This is in addition to a shortage of workshop staff and fitters.
According to the results, the driver prob lem is at its worst in the South-East with Wales and the West suffering least. Respondents saw no sign of improvement and the FTA is forecasting a "progressively wors ening situation", which will be exacerbated by the forthcoming introduction of the Working Time IF" Directive. cp• The FTA will hold a conference on the skill shortages in Birmingham on 11 September. Contact: 01892 552222. Commercial Motor and its sister publications, Motor Transport, Truck, and Truck & Driver will hold a
conference on the effects of the Working Time Directive in Birmingham on 25 October. Contact: 020 8652 8583.