RHA hopes lorry week will attract recruits to industry
The Road Haulage Association is hoping to attract new recruits to the industry through National Lorry Week which starts on Monday 11th September.
The theme this year is âThe Next Generationâ, and the RHA says the industry needs to recruit 1.2 million more people by 2022 including drivers, workshop technicians, warehouse staff and management.
Events during National Lorry Week include a Parliamentary reception, and an event at Auto Trader HQ in Manchester to tackle diversity in the workplace. The RHA said members would be engaging with schoolchildren, students and members of the public at schools, colleges and in town centres.
* The RHA has won a concession from tax officials on Overnight Allowances for lorry drivers. It has begun negotiation with HMRC after members complained that newly imposed rules were confusing, unfair and were costing them money. At the heart of the row was an insistence from the tax officials that drivers must produce receipts to cover the exact cost of the Overnight Allowance they are paid to cover subsistence when they are sleeping in their cabs on long haul trips.
HMRC has now issued new guidance which means drivers wonât have to produce receipts totalling the exact amount payable under the overnight allowance and that other means of recording expenses, such as digital photographs on a smartphone will be acceptable to the tax authorities.