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Competition not protedionism
Page 30
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COMMERCIAL MOTOR'S comment of 16 November 2006 was again about foreign vehicles causing danger on the roads in the UK. I've read before about the 'Tell us who you are' campaign. I've also read about the campaign directed against 'illegal' cabotage.
In my view these actions are aimed at one thing: protecting the national industry.
As protection is forbidden because of the freedom of providing transport services within the European Union, one has to find reasons to restrict the flow of foreign trucks.
I think the real reason British road transport is suffering is fuel prices, so blame your government for losing you your share of the transport between the UK and the Continent.
The high rate of accidents caused by foreign drivers has a logical explanation: you drive on the left.The statistics published in your magazine show that overtaking while overtaking on dual carriageways in left-hand-drive trucks are common. I can tell you we have these accidents in Holland too, mostly on the main routes to the ferries as well.
In fact, traffic safety figures in Holland also show that foreign trucks are relatively more involved in accidents than domestic ones, And who believes that this kind of accident would happen less if we asked operators their names first?
Anyway, discussion about this is useless as the Freight Transport Association's chief executive should know: it is against the EU rules as it vi( freedom of movement.
Cabotage isn't illegal, provided it conform5 certain rules. Everybody knows that 1992 wa; magic year for the open internal market. The applies to road transport.The key issue in the tage regulation was time. Read the preamble was the word —temporary", and the Commis took nine pages to explain what it meant.
Now your magazine is speaking about But your Transport Tribunal says only that if ; foreign vehicle does not leave the island with eight months it is illegal eabotage!
If Dutch operators have a share of UK dor transport there must be a reason.! know of multinationals with plants all over Europe th were very satisfied by the efficiency and the of Dutch transport operations.
Since 1992 they have asked those operatot whether they could supply their plants in the as wellamong other places.That has led to t of trips by domestic hauliers. But that was pri the aim of the Common Market!
It is sad to see Great Britain,previously ah at the side of the Dutch in Brussels when it ck. liberalisation, protecting its transport indust very thin arguments.
Han Vallenduuk Transport lawyer, Val lenduuk Advocaten Haarlem, Netherlands