Wise orices -NFC
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'HEE State-owned National 'eight Corporation has regtered its dissatisfaction with uch of the recent Price. ommission report on the ad haulage industry.
It says that increased 'ficiency is no practical ternative to increased real ices, as road haulage costs ave risen by 3.6 per cent more ian the general index of retail rices over the last three ears.
As most of these raised harges have been imposed Kternally mainly by fuel and lad tax increases, they are utside the industry's control, Ays NFC.
It says that backloading is -levitable due to the preominance of heavy one-way raffic flows into heavily opulated areas such as Lonon.
The Corporation sees little cope for seven-day or .ouble-shift working and ioints to the Moondrop and RS Nightpac schemes as xamples of this system's failire in the past.
Of Sunday work, it says that ither factors such as additio[al staff costs would eat into my savings made through in:reased vehicle utilisation.