Your country needs you! Free HGV driver ‘bootcamps’ to combat shortage begin

Your country needs you! Free HGV driver ‘bootcamps’ to combat shortage begin

The first intensive short courses designed to help more people become HGV drivers are under way, as the country continues to battle a big shortage of delivery professionals.

The scheme comes under the government's Skills Bootcamps programme, designed to support employment in key areas of the economy.

A major theme of the supply chain crisis facing the UK this year has been the dearth of lorry drivers able to keep goods moving from A to B, contributing to empty supermarket shelves, delays in products leaving ports and even the panic buying-inspired fuel shortage in the autumn.