Mr Canniford said it was not an exclusively “North Somerset problem”. The UK is currently 20,000 to 40,000 bin lorry drivers short, he said.<\/p>\n
He said part of the problem was the high demand for time off during summer.<\/p>\n
“It’s hot, people want to be on their holidays,” he said. <\/p>\n
“These were pre-booked a long time ago, then we find we got a shortage. It makes it really difficult.”<\/p>\n
North Somerset Council is appealing for locals to help drive its bin lorries and said anyone with a HGV licence should contact them.<\/p>\n
Mr Canniford said: “You can expect things to go back to normal. <\/p>\n
“I’m not saying we won’t have these problems again in the future, simply because of the HGV issues, but we’re trying to find ways and work around that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Canniford said it was not an exclusively “North Somerset problem”. The UK is currently 20,000 to 40,000…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-354407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115050373662287281","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}