More permits for W. German trips
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AN ADDITIONAL 5,000 permits are available this year for British hauliers making journeys finishing in West Germany.
Announcing the news, Transport Secretary William Rodgers stressed that the permits are not available for transit journeys.
Hauliers will qualify for one permit for each road/rail piggy-back journey, including unaccompanied semi-trailers made in 1978, over routes which include as a minimum one of the following: • Rotterdam, Zeebrugge or Ostend to Frankfurt or Hanover; • Cologne/Neuss to Munich/Neu-Ulm or Basle; • Hamburg or Bremen to Frankfurt or Nuremburg.
Hauliers who used the CologneMunich service for complete vehicles will be notified automatically by the International Road Freight Office of their entitlement.
Those who used the unaccompanied semi-trailer services should submit to the Office receipts for payment made to the German Federal Railway, together with the relevant transfer note and the fee of £2.50 for each permit claimed.
Some of the permits from this special quota will also be offered to those who have participated in the co-operation quota scheme with West Germany in 1978. In these cases no application is necessary — the office will contact the operators.
Special quota permits are subject to the normal rules allowing operators to ask the International Road Freight Office to transfer permits to another operator. Operators cannot transfer permits between themselves.
Depending on the number of applications, it may also be possible to offer some permits to British operators who use foreign hauliers to pull their trailers and semi-trailers into West Germany.
Letters of application should reach the Office by March 12, stating the number of permits required and including evidence of the number of occasions on which semi-trailers have been towed by foreign hauliers over a recent period. Relevant receipts should also be included with any application.
The extension of the co-operation scheme to trailer operations announced last April has been discontinued. The size of the general quota for 1979 is still under negotiation.
The address of the International Road Freight Office is Westgate House, Westgate Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NEI 1TW.