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Fewer jobs in road haulage
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by Guy Sluggard
b prospects in haulage have lien sharply since this time last iar, according to a survey for cruitment specialist Manpower. says the proportion of employ's in transport and distribution ho expect to take on staff has lien from 25% to 15%; those (peeling to make redundancies up from 16% to 18%.
MD lain Herbertson confirms )at there has been a loss of aulage jobs since the end of 000, but he does not expect a )ng-term fall: "Employment rospects in transport and disibution have been steady since D93. 'Instant demand for goods equires speedy and reliable ransportation. There is still a hortage of drivers in the UK."
His last point is underlined )y Lincoln-based Stamp iransport, which employs 13 drivers and relaunched its training programme for new drivers after a gap of seven years. MD Richard Stamp says: 'We started again last year simply because we have not been able to get the drivers we need."
But Ruth Pott, head of employment affairs at the Road Haulage Association, confirms that job prospects no longer seem as buoyant: "The number of companies inquiring about making people redundant is slightly more than you would normally get at this time of year."
Manpower's quarterly sur, vey is carried out among more than 2,000 companies across 19 different industry sectors. Overall, the UK employer prediction for the January-March quarter showed the steepest fall in job prospects in the survey's 33-year history.