•••T acho affair
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TACHOGRAPHS are the only alternative to the 450km (281mile) daily distance limit for drivers of a culated vehicles over 20 tons, and for one company at least, e limit will mean an extra £14,000 a year in costs.
London Co-operative Society runs 10 tankers a day from a London dairy to a West Country creamery — a return trip of 296 miles — just 15 miles over the daily maximum.
And because of that excess the society would probably have to find a staging point 15 miles or more from the creamery and employ three men and a van over seven days a week,always with two men working to run a shunting service from the creamery to the staging point.
Co-op transport manager Bill Nelson told CM: "This is hard to swallow. But if there is no breathing space on this one then we will have to either double man or use shunting."