At the time of the referendum, there was [as usual] a massive shortage of UK-based HGV/LGV drivers, 89% of whom were British with an average age of nearly 50, and pay had just gone up 5%. [1]http://www.repgraph.co.uk/files/reports/The%20driver%20short...

The only bit that might be dominated by Eastern Europeans is the super long haul trips from Europe that Brexit is significantly reducing...

I do agree that claims about how Britons couldn't get careers in lorry driving due to massive influxes of foreigners probably helped influence the result, but such claims would have been as fundamentally dishonest as the claims about leaving funding the NHS.