Better outlook for drivers' jobs
21st March 1996, Page 10
21st March 1996
Page 10
Page 10, 21st March 1996
— Better outlook for drivers' jobs
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• Truck drivers will enjoy better job prospects over the next three months.
A survey of British employment prospects by job agency Manpower says 12% of transport and distribution companies plan to cut jobs but prospects are good because 19% plan to recruit more drivers.
But the 7% difference between the two figures is slightly below the British industrial average, where the balance between cuts and recruitment is 9%.
Manpower says transport employers are more optimistic than they were at the beginning of 1996—when more companies were planning lay-offs than were taking people on. But it says the industry is still less optimistic than it was this time a year ago.