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I was concerned to learn that Western European road transport firms have a shortage of nearly 150,000 qualified drivers and that the UK leads the way with unfulfilled jobs waiting for 52,000 drivers.

Supply chain analyst European Road Freight Transport published a report last month showing that of that 150,000 total, 127,500 jobs are available in just six countries; the UK, Germany, France, Sweden, Denmark and Norway.
In the report it states that Germany has a shortage of 45,000 while France has 20,000 vacancies.


I read recently about an unfortunate driver who was seriously injured when a full pallet landed on him as his truck was being unloaded.

Newport based Freight Movement was fined a total of £84,000 as a result of the incident as the driver, their employee, was hurt when a pallet loaded with 920kg of cardboard packaging toppled onto him from a forklift. He suffered multiple fractures and internal injuries.


Now we are not ones to blow our own trumpet but it is always nice to receive thanks from a satisfied customer so we thought we would share this with you.

David and Nadja were moving from Kings Stanley near Stroud to Sweden, Nadja’s home country. The move went very smoothly, as they confirmed in an email.

Dear Jon and Dave,

I thought I had written to say thank you weeks ago for all your hard work and patience in helping us to ship everything over to Sweden (see picture) but I guess in the flurry of getting started here it slipped my mind.

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