{"id":14067,"date":"2026-03-16T14:04:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/?post_type=news&#038;p=14067"},"modified":"2026-03-17T09:15:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:15:41","slug":"brazilian-drivers-head-to-europe","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/news\/brazilian-drivers-head-to-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian Drivers Head to Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>As the shortage of truck drivers in Europe continues to grow, Brazil is emerging as a new source of talent for European transport companies.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/trans.info\/en\/brazil-2000-drivers-461027\">Trans.iNFO<\/a>&nbsp;reported that international recruitment agency, M\/Brazil, claims to have signed agreements with 17 European haulage companies that plan to hire over 2,000 Brazilian drivers this year. M\/Brazil say that demand is mainly coming from Spain, Germany, Austria, Poland and Lithuania, and that 5% of the Brazilian drivers engaging with the agency already hold European passports.&nbsp;With many Brazilian drivers experienced in long-haul routes and demanding road conditions, the prospect of higher wages is naturally appealing, with the agency receiving 10,000 CVs a month from drivers seeking overseas work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In February,&nbsp;the European Commission published a study on the recruitment&nbsp;and&nbsp;integration of bus and truck drivers from third countries, finding the EU road transport sector has a shortage of around&nbsp;500,000 professional drivers. The study concluded that third-country recruitment can help address the gap, but only if built on clear legal pathways, fair conditions, and common EU standards, and that the practice does not become a replacement for structural reform within professional driving transport sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the shortage of truck drivers in Europe continues to grow, Brazil is emerging as a new source of talent for European transport companies. Trans.iNFO&nbsp;reported that international recruitment agency, M\/Brazil, claims to have signed agreements with 17 European haulage companies that plan to hire over 2,000 Brazilian drivers this year. M\/Brazil say that demand is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"footnotes":""},"news-category":[31],"class_list":["post-14067","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news-category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14067"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14074,"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14067\/revisions\/14074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=14067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}