Milk Marque looks to the rails
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• Hundreds of tanker drivers face an uncertain future if the Department of Transport approves a Milk Marque plan to switch long-distance milk transport to rail. Milk Marque is considering the move because of rising diesel prices—the result of Government promises to cut pollution. Milk Marque is testing a 44-tonne tanker-carrying rail wagon.
About 250-million litres of milk could be taken by rail from the South-West and Wales to London each year—a third of the annual 720-million litres Milk Marque carries.
Around 16 haulage firms own the 1,000 tankers that carry for Milk Marque. Richard Carswell, milk manager of Cullompton based Gregory Distribution, which operates long-distance haulage for the milk supplier, says the company is seeking "clarification" from Milk Marque.
Wincanton says the move would leave it untouched because
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from farms. dreds of tanker drivers' jobs at risk.