Deal or no deal, British companies will have to confront a wall of bureaucracy that threatens chaos at the border if they want to sell into the world’s biggest trading bloc when life after Brexit begins on January 1.

Ministers relying on ‘self-belief in their own rhetoric’, haulage boss tells Commons committee.

Almost half of the lorries currently crossing the Short Straits from the UK to France are empty, according to data from the Road Haulage Association.

Palantir must 'ensure the technology they are providing in no way contributes to abuses in the UK’, government told

"#Newsnight was the first TV programme to highlight this in the summer... the government could have acted then." / As BP closes sites due to a lack of lorry drivers, the Road Haulage Association's Rod McKenzie says issues are down to Brexit, the pandemic and a historic shortage

But Road Haulage Association says process described by prime minister simply ‘doesn’t exist’.

New supply chains, brand new system, and ... oh dear, it's still not ready yet.

Border checks said to have increased business costs and ‘suppressed’ trade, and the situation could worsen.

The end of the holiday season heralds the return to centre stage of a number of burning Brexit-related issues this autumn.

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.

Business chiefs and economists say huge disruption lies ahead if Downing Street triggers Article 16.

The consequences of ending the free movement of people between Britain and the EU are becoming painfully clear.

Britain needs 100,000 more drivers if it is to meet demand, according to the UK's Road Haulage Association (RHA). The signs are already there: sporadic gaps on supermarket shelves, pubs running low on beer, McDonald's suspending milkshakes.

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.

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.

Hauliers carrying goods to Europe have warned they face more damaging restrictions as the latest figures show exports dropped by two-fifths in January as the Brexit transition period came to an end.

A shortage of skilled trade workers has developed as European Union migrants leave the UK and demand for home improvements rises, the founder of Homeserve has said.

Covid, Brexit and a shortage of lorry drivers has been blamed for delays in collecting people's household rubbish. Ceredigion, Powys, Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan councils said they were already facing delays or expected further delays. Residents said their household or garden waste had been left on the kerbside for weeks.

RE:ACT Disaster Response has agreed a £180,000 six-month contract with Kent County Council to ease stuck truckers’ nightmare waits to board ferries and Eurotunnel shuttles

A Tory MP has left people rolling their eyes after she blamed the EU, not Brexit, for traffic jams near the port of Dover.

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

Driver shortages remain the single biggest crisis in the haulage industry in the wake of Brexit, with a shortfall of nearly 70,000, according to courier firm Speedy Freight – which also cites the ongoing impact of red tape.

‘There has never been a more challenging time’ for the UK’s food supply chain, according to industry leaders, who are pressing the Prime Minister to grant them access to EU and EEA labour.

Waste truck drivers are being poached by other businesses, some while on their rounds.

Shoppers have been warned that they could face more empty shelves due to a collapse in the supply chain as retailers face increasing pressure to keep up with demands whilst tackling staffing problems.

Ham sandwiches confiscated, Percy Pigs exiled, and the threat of rotten fish in Westminster are some of the problems plaguing the UK.

Exports to the EU plunged massively last month compared with January 2020.

The Road Haulage Association has criticised Michael Gove for his lack of assistance.

Exports to the EU have plummeted by 68% since Brexit

First it was a lack of truck drivers that crippled gas stations. Now Britain is facing a shortage of food processing workers that’s become so severe farmers have started culling 120,000 pigs.

Truckers are trying to avoid the U.K. as Brexit red tape keeps them waiting to get to the continent.

Labour said the revelations "blow apart" the "myth" that UK-EU trade disruption is a temporary problem.

The food industry is predicting a nightmare for British customers, with price rises and empty shelves caused by Brexit.

More food items are likely to disappear from supermarket shelves as companies struggle to fill roles after lockdown.

Gaps are starting to appear on supermarket shelves because of a “desperate shortage” of lorry drivers – a problem that will likely lead stores to raise food prices.

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

Gas stations across Great Britain are running dry due to a post-Brexit shortage of truck drivers. The government announced a plan to issue 5,000 temporary visas for truckers.

A 23-mile stretch of the M20 is closed amid HMRC technical problems and a ferry shortage.

The Road Haulage Association takes aim at the Cabinet Office minister's engagement in a letter seen exclusively by Sky News.

One of the stand out themes of the pre-referendum messaging was the idea that the UK would be able to trade more easily with non-EU countries, while having no loss of access to the EU. This doesn’t appear to be the case though.

Motorists and shoppers have been urged not to panic buy fuel and goods as the shortage of lorry drivers hit supplies.

Ministers urged to fulfil promise of new facilities, as desperate drivers forced to ‘s*** in bushes’.

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

Shortage caused by Brexit and the pandemic, Road Haulage Association says.

A haulage industry group has said a lack of drivers will have a detrimental impact on our economy.

The Road Haulage Association has described its meeting with Michael Gove about post-Brexit arrangements as "a washout".

A dairy farmer said he was told to dump his milk after a shortage of lorry drivers meant it could not be collected.

THE SNP’s Westminster leader has made a plea to Scots who are undecided on independence as the consequences of Brexit become more apparent.

Hotel and restaurant staff are travelling hundreds of miles to pick up produce as Britain’s lorry driver shortage leaves supplies stranded in warehouses, industry leaders say.

‘It’s not an effective system to actually ensure someone is ready to cross the border,’ says top logistics body.

The Road Haulage Association says the UK has lost 15,000 drivers since Brexit and that this will lead to a lack of deliveries of everyday products to supermarket shelves by the autumn. / “Despite what those politicians backing Brexit told us, the UK’s exit from the EU is going to cost everyone in the UK more in their shopping basket.”

Lidl has blamed empty shelves at some of its stores on "disruptions to supply chain networks".

"Andrew, you and I know that in 2016 there weren't shortages in the supermarkets, there wasn't fuel rationing" Lord Andrew Adonis told Andrew Castle.

Thanks to the HGV driver shortage, many refuse collectors are quitting to earn up to £30,000 more driving lorries. But what does this mean for our streets, as the rubbish and recycling piles ever higher?

MICHAEL Gove has been accused of wilfully ignoring the facts in an effort to avoid accountability for the “long-term damage” caused by Brexit.

Cabinet Office minister warned hauliers that unless they get their post-Brexit paperwork in order there could be queues of up to 7,000 lorries.

More than a quarter of the trucks crossing into the EU from the UK are travelling empty, as Brexit eats into UK export figures.

The UK's chief Brexit negotiator has said the government is not "scared" of walking away from talks without a trade deal ready to come into force in 2021.

Hauliers in Northern Ireland have raised concerns about the competence of newly-trained customs agents offering advice to businesses.

DESPITE promises of sunny uplands, no Scottish companies which export to Europe have benefited from Brexit, according to industry chiefs.

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

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

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

The boss of a haulage company says he has seen journey times treble due to EU red tape and Covid testing for drivers.

Permits row also means it is still unclear if drivers will be able to bring over food from the Continent after 1 January, inquiry told.

Since the start of the year, a raft of new requirements are making life increasingly difficult for UK businesses that trade with the EU.

January has seen Brexit set in motion for real — but for many businesses, operations have ground to a standstill as they struggle to shift goods across new borders.

Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Lidl are just some of the stores that have responded to the complaints from customers.

Sky News sees figures showing that the so-called Dover TAP has been deployed on 18 of the first 32 days of the year, with hauliers expressing concern that new red tape is to blame.

Richard Burnett, the chief executive of the Road Haulage Association, has told The Telegraph that hauliers have raised their rates for trips between the EU and the UK by almost 700% to account for disruption and difficulties finding back loads.

Brexit has caused hauliers to become "their own customs agents" due to shortages, MSPs have been told.

So five years after the referendum, and six months from leaving the single market, what's the slogan from businesses most affected? Bureaucracy, delay, cost.

The context is a national shortage of drivers made worse by Brexit and the unwelcoming environment for foreign nationals now fostered by government.

A Somerset cheese factory has said it is facing a staff shortage it believes is due to Brexit.

Why are there not enough people? What has suddenly happened that South Holland’s farmers cannot get the harvest in?

The PM has been urged to introduce temporary worker visas for HGV drivers.

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

UK meat exporters have warned the government that post-Brexit changes at the border have caused disruption to meat shipments crossing the channel.

Tony Abbott was given a top role as UK trade ambassador despite widespread disquiet about his controversial views.

THE UK Government’s Brexit plans are "bonkers" and "a shambles", according to a director of the Road Haulage Association (RHA).

The government has explored ways to address a shortage of haulage workers, including creating a short-term visa scheme for foreign lorry drivers, the BBC understands.

MD of policy at the Road Haulage Association, Rod McKenzie, defends its survey of members suggesting major Brexit trade woes.

Almost a third of U.K. logistics companies expect to face trucker shortages this year, and a 10th say recruitment issues will pose an “extreme barrier” to the recovery of their business from the pandemic.

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 driver shortage for HGVs is hitting crisis level in the UK. A combination of factors (many of them long-standing) has contributed to the current situation. / Brexit has contributed too.

Calls to bring in the army to help ease the UK’s worsening driver shortage have been rebuffed by industry associations seeking “long-term sustainable solutions”.

Some types of wine and spirits may not be available unless ministers take urgent action to fix lorry driver shortage and shipping delays, say alcohol suppliers.

Loss of 100,000 hauliers due to Covid and Brexit will cause food ‘rolling power cuts’, experts warn

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

The haulage industry has urged Boris Johnson to step up “lacklustre” efforts to tackle a shortage of 100,000 HGV drivers, telling him to act now on supply chains or face a Christmas crisis.

The UK government is still failing to understand the country’s supply chains, say logistics operators, or recognise their anxiety as more Brexit regulations loom.

Thousands of British petrol stations ran out of fuel due to panic buying on Monday, after days of long queues at pumps caused by the lorry driver shortage. Analysts say that, in addition to Covid, the speed of the Brexit process bears a lot of responsibility for the crisis...

The way UK Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove has been handling exports to the European Union (EU) since the Brexit transition period ended has attracted a new wave of criticism. The volume of exports made through British ports to the EU reportedly fell by 68 per cent in January compared to the same month last year, and that drop has been largely attributed to problems caused by Brexit.

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

According to the boss of Europe’s largest haulage trade body, the UK is looking at a ‘nightmare scenario’ that will lead to ‘weeks, if not months’ of shortages.

Cabinet Office used ‘unverifiable data’ to rebut a Road Haulage Association survey showing export volumes dropped by 68%

Food body warns of ‘post-Brexit perception problem’ over recurring traffic gridlock.

It’s one of the labour shortfalls that has emerged partly because of border friction following Brexit.

The Unite Trade Union claims the UK Government has showed “sheer incompetence" after a freedom of information request revealed that no monitoring of the extent of cabotage occuring in the country has taken place.

Latest Brexit red tape will come into force alongside a series of further checks at Dover and other ports.

Five hundred meals to be given out in Kent on Saturday

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.

Britain’s departure from the European Union has brought higher costs, more red tape and border delays for businesses, and not yet delivered promised benefits, a public spending watchdog said Wednesday.

UK trade with the EU faces "significant disruption" when the Brexit transition period ends in January, a government spending watchdog has said.

A leading politician has slammed the Conservatives over the HGV lorry driver shortage and claimed that Brexit has played a large role in it.

Grant Shapps has announced policy aimed at foreign lorry drivers to help ease supply chain problems.

With supply chain problems being blamed on workers self-isolating, Caolan Robertson reports on what business owners, managers and labourers have been telling him across the country about the consequences of Brexit.

Intense traffic congestion around Dover is partly down to “Brexit scenarios”, according to the head of the British Ports Association.