Those articles literally do not mention fuel stations having to close as a result of the driver shortage at all, whereas here in the UK it was front-page headli

Those articles literally do not mention fuel stations having to close as a result of the driver shortage at all, whereas here in the UK it was front-page headline news. No mention of fuel shortages means no mass panic buying and no actual fuel crisis where carers and nurses can't get enough fuel to drive to work like the one in the UK. Also, the UK truck driver shortage is very much a consequence of companies systematically underpaying drivers, resulting in really high turnover in the industry - just like that trade article you linked describes in the US. It's just that becaues part of the mechanism by which they got away with that is drivers from lower-cost-of-living countries in the EU, all the anti-Brexit folks are siding with the trucking industry...