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The British are good at surviving. To be honest, I sometimes think that we've become expert with a disproportinate amount of practice over the years, which is why our resilience always surprises foreigners who haven't had so many economic disasters to survive or mistakes to learn from.
I'm certainly convinced that the haulage industry is weathering the present storm better than expected because, with so many recent precedents, it has out back fleets at the first hint of real trouble.
Certainly that View seemed to be shared by John Forsey, who runs A. D. Forsey at Weston-super-Mare. He was doing a quick mental count of the number of Bristol-area haulage trucks put off the road in the first three months of the year, and made it around 230.
Sadly, that includes some whose businesses have folded.
Like many established operators, his company is running a taut ship, very Bristol fashion, just now and putting expansion plans on the shelf. Consolidation is the order of the day.