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In Hungary, the sector nominally employs about 120,000 drivers.
Of those, 12,000–14,000 are already missing, and 15% of current drivers may retire within five years, potentially reducing the workforce by an additional 18,000.
This shortfall could cost the state budget up to HUF 200 billion annually in lost tax revenues. Industry leaders argue that closer cooperation between road and rail transport is essential, as decades of underfunding have weakened rail capacity despite forecasts showing significant traffic growth.
Within three years, daily freight traffic could rise by 30–40 new cargo trains from the car factories in the eastern part of the country, plus 5–6 from Ukraine and 5–10 from Romania, volumes the current rail network cannot handle.
The Association of Logistics Service Centers in Hungary, representing 90% of Hungary’s logistics centers with a combined 2025 revenue of more than HUF 1.1 trillion, warns that urgent structural changes are needed to stabilize the sector.
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