10,000 Visas For Drivers And Poultry Workers Won't Fix Food And Fue...

10,000 Visas For Drivers And Poultry Workers Will Not Solve Food And Fuel Shortages

The government’s widely anticipated emergency programme to issue temporary visas to up to 5,000 lorry drivers is not enough to fix Britain’s food and fuel supply-chain crisis and is unlikely to attract workers to the UK, haulage chiefs have warned.

Ministers on Sunday announced rushed plans to add 5,000 HGV drivers and 5,500 poultry workers to a visa scheme until Christmas.

Marco Digioia, the head of the European Road Haulers Association representing more than 200,000 trucking companies across the continent, told the Observer that “much more would be needed” than a temporary relaxation of immigration rules. “There is a driver shortage across Europe,” he said. “I am not sure how many would want to go to the UK.”

With staff shortages in other EU countries, such as Germany, attracting people to come and work in the UK for three months will prove a challenge.

The temporary work permit scheme will not resolve the estimated UK shortage of around 100,000 drivers. Setting up the visa scheme and recruit and training and approving the drivers could take several weeks, if not months, and there is also a shortage of 400,000 drivers in Europe.  

The government ruled out deploying HGV driver from the Armed services, which would have provided immediate relief.

Although there are over a million people unemployed in the UK, most will not be licensed to drive heavy goods vehicles. More funding is needed to provide training and support to recruit staff locally.

There are 5 million people on universal credit benefit and 600,000 still on the job retention furlough scheme until the end of September – employers are paid by taxpayers to have staff sitting at home months after the economy has reopened.

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Millions of jobs will be lost as Uber driverless cars and the digital revolution changes everything

Uber driverless car 

Think your job is safe? Think again. Read this...

U.S. tech giant Uber are rolling out plans to allow users to hail self-driving cars, not in the distant science fiction-based future, but within weeks, the company has confirmed.

The firm provides millions of taxi rides around the world through self-employed drivers running their own cars.

The launch will take place in Pittsburgh, where it is teaming up with Volvo. Volvo has already been testing self-driving versions of the same vehicle in Sweden as part of its "Drive Me" project, said Alan Stevens at the UK's Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). The firm has also trialled the vehicle in Australia and plans to do so in London next year.

This is a clever publicity stunt for Uber, as the vehicles will actually be supervised by a human driver, who can take control if necessary, however, it is clear where this is going. Uber eventually hopes to replace its one million drivers, Bloomberg said.

Uber are also in the news this week after launching a legal Challenger in London against new rules to impose English tests on drivers.

Uber's founder Travis Kalanick has been outlining a world dominating vision of a self-driving fleet for some years and has raised £10 billion dollars to make it happen.

A spokeswoman for the firm told the BBC: "Starting later this month, Uber will allow customers in downtown Pittsburgh to summon self-driving cars from their phones, crossing an important milestone that no automotive or technology company has yet achieved.

"In Pittsburgh, customers will request cars the normal way, via Uber's app, and will be paired with a driverless car at random. Trips will be free for the time being, rather than the standard local rate of $1.30 [£0.98] per mile."

Over three million people are employed in the transport industry in the U.S. alone. It will be long before most of our goods will be delivered by driverless cars and trucks. Amazon has already started using drones to delivering parcels in America.

Early results from tests show that robot-driven cars are safer than the average human driver – and they don’t drink or get into road rage!

On a more serious point, we are all going to have to adapt to more and more of our jobs being done by computers, robots and  machines. This is happening now across many industries and will remove humans from tens of millions of jobs in the next few years.

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