Forklift Counterbalance Operators / Driver Gap personnel are proud to be working in partnership with The Range to support the recruitment at their brand:new Distribution Centre, the largest warehouse built in over 5 year
Around 60 percent of the HGV drivers in the UK are over the age of 45, while 13 percent are over 60, and only two percent are under the age of 25, according to a recent study conducted by an all-party UK parliamentary group. With the UK economy growing, a strengthening haulage industry will need an additional 150,000 lorry drivers by 2020, but not enough young people are entering into this profession. In fact, logistics companies are already struggling to hire new drivers, with around nine vacancies available for each qualified HGV driver, says Dr Ross Moloney, CEO of Skills for Logistics in a...
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