Think of the political feat that it was to take a situation with a stagnating economy and a slight shortage of labour to get them all to sign up and go to Europe to fight rather than just let market forces step in, and push up local wages where the shortages were the most acute.
Places like Yorkshire and Scotland should, by rights, already seen some hiking of drivers pay (except in tramping) by now. But no.
Down here in Kent, you only have to look at the main trade route roads the A2, M20, M2 to see that they are pretty much choc-a-bloc with foreign drivers these days.
The market force is
(1) Resist the supply and demand wage increases
(2) Fill the vacancy with a “9 points OK” local driver OR migrant
(3) Go through the pretence of real capitalism happening, and raise wages eventually but by inflation only (so no real increase happens)
(4) Rinse and repeat.
If you disrupt this chain, then even then - wages might rise, but the pound falls to compensate. This will see an increase in lifestyle for those drivers who don’t holiday abroad, and the “pound in your pocket” argument applies.
If memory serves, the 1980’s saw jobs being destroyed En Masse, and the pound not staying strong anyway.
Today, 2017 we’ll see jobs destroyed En Marche (!) and the pound is already faceplanted. 
The EU citizen on the other hand, sees an over-priced currency that, they unfortunately cannot get paid much of when working, so try and move to minimalist work ethic to get around.
No one wants to put themselves out any more.
This Euro-wide recession is different from past ones.
We don’t get out of it with War this time, and we don’t get out of it with Fiat Currency whenever we feel like it any more.
Interestingly, the longer we attempt to pursue Brexit, the more likely one of the good-old-fashioned solutions is eventually going to happen all over again.
What’s all brand new - is the concept of a war vs a bureaucracy rather than another nation state or Empire as such.
How hard can that be? Past wars have occurred on things like “Trade Disruption” so there’s plenty of precedence for it.
Peace is a very finely balanced aspect of Geographical European life as it stands. Greece were not in a position to fight their way out. We’d struggle with our wound-down armed forces, and the like.
But… and here’s the big issue that seems to be being ignored…
Attempts to get large numbers migrants and ethnics and even lefties into the police & armed forces where their lives are actually in danger - have fallen flat over the years.
If these forces were as diverse as our governments would have had it, then there won’t be any pressure build-up. But they are not. Thus, the governments wind them down instead, hoping that law and order can be maintained with reduced people whilst steadly allowing any newcomers of any sort to out-breed us over time.
This, then - makes this particular repetition of History enough different that when it comes - we won’t see it coming as usual, people like myself being ignored as usual.
Churchill got ignored as a sitting back bench MP throughout the 30’s, but was eventually proven right. His argument wasn’t about “Ethnicity” or “Religion” or “Immigration”. It was about what was going on in Europe.
A handful of ordinary workers, of which I am one - are not going to be listened to, curse of Cassandra as usual of course. 
History will be repeating itself, and because time runs against Britain when it comes to Europe - I say it’ll be sooner than anyone thinks!
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