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Regional split on grain rates
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Grain haulage rates are rising — but not for everyone... Emma Penny reports.
HAULIERS PICKING LT grain for short journeys in Great Britain have managed to push rates up by an average of 4.7% this harvest, while operators making 150-mile journeys have seen their rates increase by only 1.8%.
The results come from an annual survey by the Home Grown Cereals Authority, which asks grain merchants how much they have paid hauliers.
However, the overall increase hides the fact that hauliers in Scotland and the West Midlands are working for less than they did in 2002, with rates for journeys of all lengths in those areas falling. For example, Scottish hauliers are being paid only 18.60/tonne for a 125-mile delivery, compared with £8.92/tonne last year.
Operators north of the border confirm that rates have been poor this year. Some report that they haven't had to swallow a decrease. but they have been forced to work for the same rate as last year.
But trucks have been travelling shorter distances too, says lain Green, of WJ&J Green from Morayshire: "Merchants have been putting grain to the nearest destination they could, probably because haulage was a much higher percentage of the final delivered cost than in previous years. Barley was trading for £6070/tonne this year, compared with 110-120/tonne in the past.