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10,000 trucks used to pass through Dover per day, of which 8,500 were driven by EU hauliers.
A large percentage of those hauliers no longer want to come, hence our transport minister extending the hours of the 1,500 who were/are UK based in an effort to make up the difference.
The impact of this was somewhat hidden by Covid, but now that things are opening up you have increased demand from Hospitality, you have constraints on customs capacity due to the holidaying public, and from the end of October (theoretically, many believe it won't or rather can't happen) we will start performing customs checks inline with our responsibilities - so far we have been, essentially, waving trucks through as we don't have the capacity to inspect them.
All of this together is going to constrict the main trade arteries, leading to less stock on shelves - which is why people are buying additional stuff now. But that doesn't really work with fresh food - although the average time from farm to supermarket in pre-Brexit times of 5 days has now (already) gone out to two weeks, with the current "remote paperwork" check rather than physically inspecting the loads at the border.