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Mr X is on the button about market forces...

14th September 2006
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

I TOTALLY AGREE with Mr X's comments last week (CA/31 August 2006).

'[here are far too many hauliers chasing too little work and hauliers are under-cutting each other just to get the work.

I previously worked fora distribution company near Bristol.A potential customer asked us to quote for full-load 44-tonne artic work from Bristol to Northampton: I submitted a rate but was told it was too high. A well-established East Anglian haulier had quoted £110 because it had trucks in the Bristol area every day and it would "pay the diesel home'. Where the hell is the sense in that? I was offered the work at those rates hut refused.

Too many UK hauliers are using Eastern European operators as the scapegoat for cutthroat haulage rates when the real problem is over-capacity in the mark etplace.The increased number of foreign trucks on our roads is apparent, but do they really have the effect that everyone states they do?

We're seeing more and more operators leaving the industry because they can no longer compete — and surely this can only he a good thing for the remaining operators.

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Locations: Bristol

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