Return to the road
Retired truckers should get back behind the wheel to stop a nightmare fuel crisis, the Transport Secretary has urged.
Grant Shapps today took to the airwaves with a rallying cry for ex-HGV drivers to plug the desperate shortage that’s affecting deliveries to petrol stations across Britain.
BP and Esso have both closed a number of forecourts due to the choke in the supply chain – with BP forced to ration.
Downing Street insists there isn’t a nationwide shortage of fuel and begged drivers not to panic-buy.
But this morning Mr Shapps admitted: “I’m not saying there aren’t pressures there are, it’s just that we are making many, many changes and moving heaven and earth to get people into driving HGVs on very, very good salaries.”
