LONDON, Sept 25 — Britain is expected to announce plans to issue temporary work visas to truck drivers to ease an acute labour shortage that has led to fuel rationing at hundreds of gas stations and long queues to fill up — with pumps running dry in some places.
“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.Ministers have cautioned against panic buying, and oil companies say there is no shortage of supplies, merely problems delivering the fuel to gas stations.
EG Group, which runs 341 forecourts across Britain, said yesterday it would impose a purchase limit of £30 pounds per customer for fuel due to the “unprecedented customer demand”. “The public should be reassured there are no shortages,” the spokeswoman said. “But like countries around the world we are suffering from a temporary Covid-related shortage of drivers needed to move supplies around the country.”
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