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1DUSTRY and commerce is Lying some £500 million a !ar from the motorway and unk road network built ming this decade, says the ritish Road Federation.
A BRF report published 1day — Better roads for a ?tter economy — spells out arm of the benefits brought British industry by a odern road network. It looks the siting of depots, stock mtrol and personnel moveent, as well as the more bvious benefits like timerwing and reliability. There -e many practical examples.
Dunlop Tyres, for example, up a new tyre factory in yashington New Town, Co urham close to the AI(M). Thitbread have sited three new breweries all near motorways: at Luton because of the Ml, at Samlesbury, Lancashire for the M6 and at Magor, Gwent for the M4.
The report shows that one of the major benefits to industry of our motorway system is in the organisation of depots. Motorways in the North West have meant that CadburySchweppes Limited could reduce their five operating depots to three. The result is a saving of 10 per cent in warehousing costs.
The report also points to swifter and more reliable deliveries via an efficient motorway system. The largest single movement of goods from RHM Foods' factory in Cheshire is to its depot at Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire. 13} using the M6 and MI, vehicles can now make the return journey of 320 miles in one shift.
Reliability of journeys is important to industry. When the London Outer Orbital M2b is completed, the guesswork in time taken between Enfield and Reigate, or Staines to Brentwood will go.