The UK is "sleepwalking into a disaster" over its border plans for the end of the Brexit transition period on 31 December, road hauliers have warned.

The U.K. government just presented a 206-page manual for how the country will trade with the European Union on Jan. 1, when Britain’s exit from the 27-nation bloc becomes official 4 1/2 years after the nation voted to leave.

British companies trading with Europe will have to absorb a post-Brexit bureaucracy burden and fill in an extra 215m customs declarations at a cost of about £7bn a year, according to government officials.

The U.K. risks failing to recruit the 50,000 customs agents the logistics industry says are needed before Britain’s final parting with the European Union, spelling potential chaos at the country’s busiest border.

New recruits needed to process millions of extra declaration forms from 1 January 2020.

British goods face tariffs of up to 60 per cent while many imports won't be charged any under latest Tory plans.

Labour says the government "fiddling while Rome burns" as business groups complain they were ignored.

Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has been accused of trying to “silence” road hauliers from raising concerns about a no-deal Brexit.

British lorries that do not have proper documentation will not be able to reach France after a no-deal Brexit because shipping companies will not allow them to board their ships in Dover.

Everyone should worry about no deal, the civil servant who was, until March, head of the Brexit department has said.

‘Everybody should be worried about what happens in a no-deal situation,’ Philip Rycroft says in interview with BBC Panorama.

More than 10,000 HGV operators have not obtained crucial annual passes.

Road haulage body dismisses trial involving 79 lorry drivers as ‘window dressing’

Haulage bosses say plans for customs ‘dire’ and government in denial over scale of issue