A year ago
Due to a mass shortage of truck motorists in Europe, Stellantis and Renault are looking inward to their plant workers for truck motorists and to deliver buses to dealerships. According to Automotive News Europe, Stellantis-possessed companies Fiat and Peugeot have transferred emails and put up bills to retain plant workers so they can get behind the wheel. According to Stellantis, around 140 workers from France, Spain, and Italy have previously stepped up. Stellantis is covering freight and training to get the licenses needed to drive the exchanges. The automaker is indeed considering buying its own line of exchanges to help iron out the logistics. This all follows an occasion caused by motorist shortages that left thousands of its Toyota RAV4 contender, the Peugeot 3008 SUV, stuck at Stellantis' Sochaux factory in France. The company had to store the vehicles in a nearby abandoned airport. There is a long history to the deficit in Europe that starts with low pay and bad working conditions before COVID hit. The difference between motorists retiring versus the quantum being hired has widened, particularly as trucking companies go out of business as they lose motorists. also the war in Ukraine started, which led to Ukrainian truckers leaving work to go home and many more coming truckers. The most common number presently reported is a deficit of around 4,000 motorists. Other automakers are facing analogous problems, and Renault has gone for the same result as Stellantis but is using the reclamation and staffing company Adecco Group for training. Numerous manifestations of the trucking community suggest the problem is only going to get worse unless a result is set up and enforced. The problem, it appears, is that being a truck motorist in Europe simply is not an attractive proposition, and companies are going to have to pay more. It's as simple as that. It's likely that Stellantis and Renault are doing so, with Stellantis seriously considering going a step further and employing its own motorists and furnishing its own line of exchanges rather than using separate logistic companies.
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