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New loading code will hit timbei
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• A revised code of practice on vehicle load safety is expected to deepen the crisis facing timber hauliers when it is published on 10 October.
The code, which covers almost everything carried on trucks, will say that upright supports or pins should be fitted along the sides of all trailers carrying unprocessed timber.
At present smaller logs are often piled transversely on flatbed trailers and secured with ropes and straps.
Timber hauliers warn that the extra costs involved in corn
plying with the revised code will be extremely damaging at a time when margins have been cut to the bone by cheap foreign imports ( CM29 Aug-4 Sept).
Owner-driver Robin Quinton. who trades as Felledwood Transport in Aldershot, says it will mean spending at least £5,000 on one of his vehicles because its crane will have to be moved.
Peter Clark, owner of Norfolk-based Timb-A-Haul, claims the revised code is a knee-jerk reaction to an accident two years ago when cross loaded timber slipped off, kill an elderly couple.
"lf the costs outweigh wl you are making, at the end of 1 day you can't carry on los money" he says, adding tl converting his four traile which already have some pins ted, will cost more than £6,0 The Department Transport says that the coi which has not been revis since 1984, is not legally bind but if an alternative method used to the one recommend( hauliers will need to show tha is just as safe.