* The US has 95% utilisation leaving limited elasticity.
* UK pallets are 22.5% smaller than those used in the US.

= Less drivers more load
= Higher Covid impact

How about I don't do journalism or economics and journalists and the economists stop trying to do industry analysis?
They also have drop trailer strategies which allows them to work on even less drivers, which we don't have in the UK because our freight industry is slanted to smaller carriers.
In short, do they want to talk about why the US has shortages and how they are different to the reasons that the UK has shortages, or were they trying to find anything they can point to that would muddy the waters.
Because, quite frankly, they don't seem to be pointing out the differences.

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@Craig4P @Andrew_Adonis What reasonable point? You claimed the Common Market was a pro-EU con, it was a pro-Brexit con, and people have been deceived for 30 years. Including yourself.
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It was also bad for importing labour.
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I read through every single Freight Transport Association skills shortage report and investigated the issues in the US, Poland and Germany.

Claiming you know it wasn't is stupid.
Claiming you know it wasn't after 2 minutes of research is just ridiculously stupid.
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Firstly, the article asks if Remainers can say they were right, and so I looked into what we actually said.
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