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WHAT PRICE 44-TONNERS?

10th February 2000
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The good news, according to your news story, is that we're finally going to get 44-tonners ( CM27 Jan-2 Feb 2000). But the bad news is that we'll have to wait "while plans are made for improved enforcement and the protection of rail freight from cheaper road transport".

So while hauliers pull out all the stops to get more efficient the railway companies have to be protected.

Where was our protection when the price of diesel and road tax was going through the roof? Back when road and rail were both nationalised it might have made sense for the government to interfere and run transport for the benefit of the whole country. But those days are long gone, thank goodness.

If privatisation means any:tang it means that industries have to stand on their own two feet. Rates for road haulage are rock bottom but from the government's point of view at least tnat means British industry gets cheap transport for its goods, even if it is at the expense of hauliers struggling to survive. But now, as well as everything else we have to handle, the government won't let us have bigger, more efficient trucks until they've made sure the railway companies are taken care of.

It looks like we get all the uncertainties of private industry but the railways don't.

J Randal,

136/mouth, Devon,

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