UK govt says fuel crisis beginning to ease

The UK government has put army troops on standby to help distribute gasoline and help ease a fuel drought, triggered by a shortage of truck drivers, that has drained hundreds of pumps and sent frustrated drivers on long searches for gas. 

Howard Cox, Fuel Campaigner  said "The only thing we can do at the moment to get back to some sort of normality is to get the 100, 200 military drivers to actually start delivering to forecourts because all of the tankers, refineries are full up with diesel and petrol ready to go. We just need some drivers, bums on seats."

The supply problems stem from a shortage of as many as 100,000 truck drivers, due to a perfect storm of factors including pandemic-related disruption to driver training, an aging workforce and an exodus of foreign workers following Brexit.