It's a small (transport) world
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MOST road transport firms employ 10 or fewer workers, while less than three per cent have 200 employees.
These figures emerged in the Commons last week when Mr John Golding, Under-Secretary for Employment, gave an analysis of employment in 1975. He said that 15,500 ma transport firms had from on to 10 employees, which reprE sented 69.2 per cent of all unit in the industry. Total numbE of employees in these .firm was 56,200, forming 12.6 pE cent of all road transpot employees.
Firms with 11 to 49 worket totalled 5,200 — 23.2 per cer of the total — with 112,10 employees, equal to 25.1 pE cent of the total.
Eight-hundred firm employed between 50 and 9 — 3.6 per cent of the total and their workers numbere 57,200, equal to 12.8 per cent c all road transport employees.
There were 400 firms wit 100 to 199 workers — 1.8 pc cent — and the number c employees, 62,000 represente 13.9 per cent of the grand tota Adding together all thes figures, the situation in 197 was that 21,900 road transpoi firms — 97.8 of the total employed up to 199 workers.
The total number c employees in these businessE was 287,500 — 64.4 per cent ( all road transport workers.