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Scots like to keep it local

16th March 2006, Page 7
16th March 2006
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SCOTTISH COMPANIES prefer long-term relationships with local operators to short-term deals with foreign contractors.

That was the view put forward as part of oral evidence submitted to the Local Government and Transport Committee at the Scottish Parliament inquiry into freight transport.

Alan Mitchell of CBI Scotland warns that foreign operators might not put in place the necessary training, development and technological advances that are necessaly for long-term contracts.

Phil Flanders, the Road Haulage Association's director for Northern Ireland and Scotland, points to one example of undercutting by foreign operators in which an Ayrshire operator taking a load to England received £460 a tripuntil a Polish haulier stepped in and snapped up the job for just £200.

• WH Malcolm has taken on four Polish drivers out of a workforce of I.800."We're putting a toe in the water," says MI) Andrew Malcolm.


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