UK mulls calling in army to help ease gas shortage at pumps

LONDON (AP) — Lines of cars formed astatine British state stations for a 4th time connected Monday, arsenic the authorities mulled bringing successful the service to assistance easiness proviso disruption triggered by a shortage of motortruck drivers. Brian Madderson, president of the Petrol Retailers Association, said grooming has been taking spot “in the background” for subject unit to thrust tankers. The authorities says it has “no plans astatine the moment” to deploy troops. The haulage manufacture says the U.K. is abbreviated arsenic galore arsenic 100,000 truckers, owed to a cleanable tempest of factors including the coronavirus pandemic and an exodus of overseas workers pursuing Brexit. The operator drought is contributing to bare supermarket shelves and shuttered state pumps.