People do know that announcing 5000 driver visas today does not mean 5000 drivers suddenly show up tomorrow, right? You're looking at several weeks of bureaucratic process and then recruitment before the first drivers show up.
Factor in need to adjust visa systems, Home Office checks, business sign-on/pay rates/accommodation, recruitment in EU and non-EU (latter if they want the full 5000), drivers getting to the UK and getting briefed, that's at least a month if not more before they hit the road
The UK government is talking about a time-limited 3 month visa for foreign aka EU and non-EU HGV drivers to "save Christmas" that in reality means the earliest you'll see anything close to 5000 of these drivers hit UK roads is late October/early November.
That's if UK businesses are even willing or able to offer the big pay rates and sign-on bonuses to tempt skilled EU and non-EU drivers to do a time-limited contract in the weeks in the run up to Christmas. Though Turkish and Algerian drivers would probably be less fussed.
And that's assuming the UK government and business can even find EU drivers willing to leave their current contracts at a time when salaries and conditions are improving closer to home, or even has recruitment networks to find trained HGV drivers in Turkey or other non-EU states
Btw stupid visa schemes are not a monopoly of the UK. A lot of dysfunctional approaches to handling non-EU system migration in EU states. Just Brexit removes the supply chain and labour market economies of scale the EU system provides to mitigate structural dysfunctions
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