One former driver, Jake Justice, who turns 90 next month, said he had recently been contacted by a recruitment agency representative who said there were good opportunities in the industry due to current shortages.
“I told him I would barely be able to climb into a cab. I retired 25 years ago,” he told The Independent.
The recruitment worker then suggested, after hearing Mr Justice’s age, that he would be able to help him retrain for his licence or he could drive vehicles around the yard, rather than on the road, he said. Other friends who had long retired from the industry had also been contacted by haulage firms offering them work, Mr Justice said.
My dad got his HGV licenses forty years ago but never used them. I was joking with him at the weekend that he should see if he could get them reactivated and land himself a £60k a year job. He's 79 in a couple of months.
This is very WTF;