Drivers’ daily dangers

IF YOU were to roll up to any depot or truck stop and ask a driver what they thought about the challenges faced by the industry, you’d get some colourful responses. And they’d be justified. Drivers, including owner-drivers and small fleets operators, are under immense pressure, forced to meet strict and unrealistic deadlines particularly over the last 20 pandemic months.

There are significant cost pressures, the ever-present danger and impact of road trauma, and plummeting standards because of the deadly squeeze from retailers, manufacturers and oil companies at the top of supply chains.

Add to this the fact that there is a very