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CHARLES BURKE Owner-driver/truck dealer IRS Engineering Rhonda Valley, South Wales
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As if to prove that everybody is talking about the driver CPC, Charles Burke tells how he was recently chatting to some drivers in their mid-to-late 50s.
They all said they would quit before it comes in," he says. "If they're too young to retire they'd go and work for a company such as B&C), which actively recruits older staff.
"This could cause a huge driver shortage. I've been in transport for 40 years and I'll do the periodic training. But I know it won't make me any better at my job."
Burke shares the view that new recruits will be deterred, not encouraged, by the mandatory training.
"What individual looking for a job is going to fork out hundreds of pounds for an LGV licence and then a thousand or more for CPC training?
"I just see a shortage of drivers and a huge influx of foreign trucks," he says.