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MANY as 40,000 mothballed ies could have been put back
revenue earning service as suit of the rail strikes, a Road loge Association spokesman med this week.
e said that this figure was Jed on the "thickening lion" in the RHA, as a result .eports from its area secre.1s, and claimed that this was stantiated by "anecdotal evice".
fhile some area representas of the RHA have been less )ared to put their heads on block and specify a definite re for the amount of extra k being handled by their nbers, there is little doubt
operators are experiencing ini-bonanza.
R concedes that it has lost a stantial volume of business ch it might otherwise have
over the last four weeks,
a BR spokesman told CM
it is not seeking new busis at present.
Freightliner spokesman said company was sending as :h of its traffic by road as is sible, mainly using its own t, but said that this could r begin to cope with the 000-tonne equivalent unit ual share of the freight marNhich Freightliner carries.
RHA spokesman said he
certain that £200m a year th of freight business has won by the haulage indus