Before Christmas at the latest, there is a risk of supply shortages in Germany.
(Photo: Reuters)
With the television pictures from Great Britain, some Germans are currently gaining some glee: queues of cars at gas stations, Brits fighting over a canister of petrol in front of gas pumps, empty shelves in supermarket chains such as Tesco or Sainsbury’s. Because the country was pushing foreign truck drivers off the island after Brexit, London had to call in the military to remedy the threatening supply bottlenecks. After all, there is now a shortage of 100,000 truckers in the country.
But scorn and ridicule shouldn’t be too loud on the other side of the English Channel. Because before Christmas at the latest, there is a risk of supply shortages in this country too. Also in Germany, haulage associations warn, there is a shortage of 60,000 truck drivers – a gap that is growing by a further 15,000 drivers every year due to retirement.
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