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Tesco offers £1,000 joining bonus for HGV lorry drivers



Tesco is slotxo offering lorry drivers a £1,000 joining bonus amid a chronic shortage of drivers in the industry.

The supermarket giant has deployed the recruitment incentive for candidates who join before 30 September.

Other companies are also understood to be offering similar incentives for HGV drivers after disruption to supply chains led to product shortages.

Morrisons said it was working on schemes to train staff to become lorry drivers.

The Road Haulage Association (RHA) has estimated there is a 100,000 shortage of HGV drivers across the UK.

The industry body has said some 30,000 HGV driving tests did not take place last year because of the coronavirus pandemic, and added a "historic" shortage in drivers had been exacerbated by changes to rules following Brexit.

More recently, drivers being told to self-isolate after being notified by the NHS Covid app is also adding to the problem.

A lack of drivers has led to supermarket suffering shortages of particular brands, while oil firm BP was forced to temporarily close a "handful" of its UK sites due to shortages in unleaded petrol and diesel being delivered.

There have also been problems with the delivery of some council services.

James Jamieson, chair of the Local Government Association (LGA), said several councils had been forced to suspend garden waste collections because of the lack of drivers.