Fuel supply: Visas won’t solve petrol supply issues – retailers

Offering temporary visas to foreign lorry drivers will not be enough to solve supply chain issues, retailers and hauliers have said.

The government’s planned measures would not fix the “ultra-short term” problems caused by panic buying, the Petrol Retailers Association (PRA) said.

It said some of its members say their forecourts are running dry and others “are partly dry and running out soon”.

Long queues have formed and pumps have closed at some filling stations.

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has blamed the Road Haulage Association for triggering a “rush on petrol stations”.