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Survey claims forestry firms have to overload
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COILLTE, the Irish State forestry agency has refuted a claim that its haulage rates are forcing hauliers to overload on journeys from forests to sawmills.
A survey of hauliers by the Irish Forestry Contractors' Association indicates that 50% of contractors are overloading and says Coillte's rates are stuck in the 1980s.
But Coillte says it sets its price through competitive tendering for some 25% of contracts."Rates agreed on tenders are then used to negotiate with the other 75% of hauliers who work for us.The rates are market rates," says Coilite spokesman Ger Egan, who adds that sawmills set their own rates and guard competitive rates from one another.
Coillte accounts for just 30% of the 21.8 million tonnes of timber hauled each year by about 200 hauliers. says Egan. It has its own weighbridge staff at sawmills, will not pay for any tonnage carried over the legal rate and will ban hauliers who overload from it properties. Egan acknowledge that the wider industry is ric whiter than white on weights cat ried but says adherence to the la, is a matter for individual hauliers He adds that the Forest Indu; try Transport Group, comprisin hauliers, Coillte, and sawmill is studying the issue of weight carried in an attempt to arrive new configurations and mater als which might allow hauliers t legally carry more payload.