Long queues and fuel rationing as Britain faces truck driver shortage

With Britain facing an acute labor shortage that has led to fuel rationing at hundreds of gas stations and retailers warning of shortages over Christmas, the government is expected to announce plans to issue temporary work visas to foreign truck drivers

Across the country, motorists waited in long lines to fill up their vehicles. One big distributor said it was rationing sales and a number of operators said they were having to close some forecourts, provoking panic-buying.

"We're looking at temporary measures to avoid any immediate problems, but any measures we introduce will be very strictly time limited," a spokeswoman for Johnson's Downing Street office said in a statement. The UK's Road Haulage Association says Britain is facing a shortage of some 100,000 drivers, a result of workers leaving the industry, Brexit and COVID-19, which put a stop to driver training and testing for about a year.

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