Claim: We are short by 100,000 lorry drivers.
Fact-check: How many more HGV drivers does the UK need? - Full Fact
Verdict: this figure hasn't been fully evidenced. it is based on the assumption that there was already a shortage of 60,000 before the pandemic. there are 30,000 fewer lorry drivers now than in the year before the pandemic.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Abbas Panjwani
Date published: 2021-09-28T00:00:00