The headlines may be full of news about the driver shortage across Europe, but ETF and our affiliates have been issuing warnings for years over Europe’s broken road transport sector. ONLY now that we see and feel in our daily lives the direct effects of the driver’s shortage reflected in the fuel crisis or in the lack of food and other products in our shops – but workers in the sector have struggled for years. Europe faces a systematic shortage of HGV drivers – thanks to a sector defined by low pay and poor conditions. The only answer to the current crisis is moving the road transport sector to one where drivers are paid fairly and work under good conditions, protected by fair rules. And it is also essential that those rules are enforced! (....)