HAULIERS' customers are receiving their services at bargain prices, Transport Development Group chairman Sir James
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• Duncan said last week.
He was speaking at the Freight Transport Association's Scottish regional dinner in Glasgow, and commented: "Road hauliers are not being paid enough by their customers."
But he forecast that circumstances will change soon to give hauliers a bargaining advantage again.
But beyond saying that the past two years' pattern of economic growth is continuing, Sir James declined to make any "sensational predictions" of economic growth in the immediate future.
. dismissed the Channel fixed link proposals as "the solution looking for a problem" and said the Government would be better of duplicating the Dartford Tunnel on the M25 than building a fixed link.
Even if a drive-through link were built, it would put some ferries out of business and limit the choice of crossings available.