UK lorry drivers plan to strike over low pay and poor working conditions

Nearly 3,000 hauliers are proposing a stay at home' day, prompting fears over already creaking food supply chains

Lorry drivers are planning a nationwide strike over their working conditions, prompting warnings that this would magnify food shortages and cripple the country's already creaking supply chains.

Hauliers are proposing a stay at home" day next month in response to low pay and working terms, an event designed to compound the effect of the UK's lorry-driver shortage , which last week led to widespread stock shortages. However the Road Haulage Association, which represents commercial road haulage companies and has more than 7,000 members, warned drivers against taking action saying it would make a bad situation worse" and severely disrupt automated chains.