PA Media 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”. He also told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show there was “plenty of fuel” and that he had checked with the six refineries and 47 storage centres in the country. But Brian Madderson, chairman of the PRA, which represents about 5,500 independent petrol stations, told BBC Radio 4’s The World This Weekend that while there was […]