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Road Haulage – the HGV driver shortage rolls on

A driver shortage in the trucking industry is nothing new. From the very start, the job has been seen as an unattractive option with its long and anti-social hours, primitive working (and living) conditions and poor job satisfaction. The current statistics for road haulage drivers There are just over 400,000 registered HGV vehicles according to the Road Haulage Association (RHA),

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Will the Autumn Statement boost inadequate business investment?

Last month’s Autumn Statement was heavily focused on boosting the UK’s poor level of business investment, rightly identifying that without much higher investment, the productivity improvements required to restore the economy to meaningful growth will be unachievable. The scale of the problem The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has confirmed that real-term business investment in the UK was still at a

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December economic and business overview

In this month’s business overview, we take a closer look at the Autumn Statement and consider its real impact on business investment It’s a well-worn joke that asking two experts about the economy is likely to get you at least three opinions or that if you laid all the world’s economists end to end, they still wouldn’t reach a conclusion.

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The UK travel industry is buoyant, but how is business for travel agents?

Public confidence in travel agents Despite the rise of self-booked holidays, self-assembled via the internet, over a third of UK tourists book their trips through travel agents, according to research by Travel Counsellors. Figures published by ABTA in October as part of its first-ever Travel Confidence Index shows a score of +72 for those who booked through a professional, compared

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Strong recovery for the airline industry despite capacity constraint concerns

The most recent results of major airlines focused on the UK market show an extraordinary level of positivity. Profits at British Airways owner, IAG in Q2 2023 soared by 400% and broke previous records for that quarter. EasyJet has announced a $30bn order for Airbus planes as part of setting an ambitious annual profit before tax target of £1bn as

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