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Indian women to drive Hungarian lorries from August
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Hungary has been fighting a serious labour shortage in the last couple of years. A Hungarian company is recruiting Indian women to fill in the vacant lorry driver positions. The company thinks that the Indian women are very neat and they are hoping to see them on the roads around the middle of August.
The demand for shipping is constantly growing, but there are fewer and fewer people delivering more and more packages. As Forbes reported, the average age of drivers working for Hungarian road transport companies is 47. Similarly to bus driving, only a few young Hungarians tend to choose this career path, as we wrote before HERE. Most Hungarian youngsters cannot afford to obtain a category C-E driving licence and a driver qualification certificate. These would cost roughly HUF 600-800,000 (EUR 1,560-2,080). Further special qualifications could double the price.
Forced shutdown
In the long run, the lack of new entrants will lead to a forced shutdown of the service. If many people change careers, the dramatic shutdown will come even earlier. Tivadar Árvay, the Communications Manager of the Hungarian Road Transport Association (Magyar Közúti Fuvarozók Egyesülete, MKFE), told Forbes:
Approximately 80,000 drivers work in Hungary. 42 percent of professional drivers are over 50 years old and will retire in the foreseeable future. The share of the 20 to 30 age group is 10 percent, with hardly any new entrants.
For a long time, many drivers from the neighbouring countries worked in Hungary. Ukrainian drivers left because of the war, and Serbian and Romanian drivers left for a better salary in Western Europe.
The Orbán government could solve this problem years ago by sponsoring young Hungarians to get a category C-E driving licence and a driver qualification certificate. They didn’t do it so “guest workers” aka third world immigrants could be brought into Hungary. It is a European wide replacement agenda.
“Indian workers arrive in Hungary alone, but later on, they would like to bring their families to Europe.” This is exactly the game they played in Western Europe in the 1960 and 70ties. Now Orbán is copying it!
Why is Orbán not reacting by sponsoring young Hungarians? Instead, he is creating third world migrant communities in Hungary.