BSC fights rates rise
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HAULIERS operating for the British Steel Corporation in the Sheffield area have had rates increases designed to cover the introduction of the nine-hour driving day turned down by BSC.
Carbott Transport boss Roy Ibbotson told CM that the rates increases had been thrown out because BSC had not heard of anyone else being asked to pay the money.
He and other Road Haulage Association members in the Sheffield area presented a claim that would have added three per cent to journeys up to 135 miles but for outward journeys of over 135 and under 170 the rise would have been 12.5 per cent, allowing for a night's subsistence, which hauliers would not have to pay at present.
Between 170 and 270 miles outward journey, the rise would be seven per cent and with an outward journey of between 270 and 340 miles, it would be 10.25Ter cent, dropping to seven per cent for journeys of over 340 miles outward trip.
Mr Ibbotson said that the nine-hour day had meant a loss of productivity of 10 per cent on journeys of over 140 miles. "I have done my own calculations and the results are startling — far worse than we had anticipated. The ninehour day is costing us money."
But despite the rise in costs and dropping productivity, BSC has still refused to pay extra to its hauliers.