12LDA28C
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It was virgin cross country before no? so their recruiting policy was hiring only qualified drivers, like they did when they ran services on the west coast mainline. Since virgin are out, new policy with the new TOC operator to avoid any driver shortages.
How does taking on trainees instead of qualified drivers 'avoid any driver shortages'? It takes much longer to train up an apprentice than it does a qualified driver so that would appear to exacerbate any driver shortages with much longer timescales for any vacancies to be filled.