Thread by @vivamjm

Basically
1/ not enough UK drivers to drag loads
(inc containers from outside EU) from ports.
Nor enough customs/SPS clearance staff.

2/ meaning port discharge areas/clearing agents warehouses full to over capacity

3/ meaning LoLo service hauliers continental side won't start their journies.
& Container ships will "blank" (bypass) UK ports & discharge UK boxes on the continent

4/ meaning more UK destined cargo (UK essential imports) is perversely ever more reliant on EU drivers running through EU door to UK door on driver accompanied RoRo services

5/ meaning more EU destined cargo (UK exports) is ever more reliant on *single market qualified* (can reverse/not over-worked) EU hauliers/drivers 'back-loading'
instead of them returning empty after no profit making cabotage (at ever more escalating costs to the UK importers)

6/ meaning UK should be increasingly more welcoming (inc on customs & SPS controls) to EU hauliers/drivers that are now committed & contracted to EU internal market work (where Gov is fond of reminding everybody there is also a shortage of drivers)
OR

UK gives up all semblance of "control" : raising white flag completely on EU favoring customs/SPS clearances (Smugglers utopia)..no guaranteed fuel fill ups also a bit of a minus..& allowing a deluge of barely trained novice UK drivers onto the roads. !!! Its present 'strategies'

I could continue but the beach bar beckons...However I hope given some further insight into how fucked UK is & was always going to be... in leaving the SM/CU without operational capacity for doing so
...esp in the midst of the converging Covid container shipping/ports crisis

https://twitter.com/ChicoMioLoco/status/1443638150077861892?s=19