Truck drivers run out of Germany – “Supply collapse threatens”

Convoys of trucks on the A40 motorway

According to the industry association, there is already a shortage of 60,000 professional drivers in Germany.

(Photo: imago images / Jochen Tack)

Dusseldorf No fuel at the gas stations, no vegetables on the supermarket shelf: for weeks there has been a state of emergency in Great Britain because there are too few truck drivers there. According to estimates, the country’s transport industry is short of around 100,000 drivers – also because 14,000 foreign truckers had to return to the European continent after Brexit.

The Federal Association of Freight Transport and Logistics (BGL) expects Germany to be given two to three years more time, then the Federal Republic will face a similar economy of shortages. “We run into a supply collapse with our eyesight,” warns the head of the association, Dirk Engelhardt, to the Handelsblatt.

Numbers from job exchanges support this. According to Stepstone, companies from the freight forwarding industry posted 133 percent more vacancies this autumn than last year – and even 248 percent more than in autumn 2019. And the Indeed platform also has 64 percent on its websites in this country more tenders for truck drivers than before the pandemic.

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