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• Hauliers at Dublin Port are to press for higher rates for container work after it emerged that almost none of them are making a profit.
For the first time up to twenty hauliers have pooled information to work out that the cost per hour of a truck in the part is Ifig22.20 when travelling, and I1U15.50 if standing still.
The figures are based on a cost per 10-hour day in a 267day year which allows for no work on weekends, bank holidays, sick days (five) or breakdown days (five).
Assuming an average of two-and-a-he loads a day, the cost of shifting each load is IRE90—before any profit is achieved—according to the hauliers' figures.
At the time of the 1997 port dispute, payment for a container delivery was IF1£74.50. By last September it had risen to I RS.82.50.
Some hauliers have now negotiated their individual rates up to IRL90 a load; but it's sfiff not enough says John Nolan a seven-truck operator. "The minimum needed to be viable is a further 30%," he claims. "The increases gained only bring it in line with present-day prices.'
The figures are based on averages drawn from the 20 hauliers' castings. Some are more efficient than others and achieve higher returns than the average.