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Legislation pushes operator into selling fle
16th February 2006, Page 15
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ROCKETING FUEL prices and worries over upcoming legislation have been blamed for a Scottish haulage firm's decision to sell off its fleet.
Turriff. Aberdeenshire-based Ian Hay Transport has been running for 21 years transporting agricultural machinei-y, but the firm's trucks will go under the hammer later this month. Nine drivers will be laid off. Owner Ian Hay says he now plans to run what amounts to a freight forwarding business, distributing work to a group of six owner-drivers: "All the government legislation that's coming through just scares me." 1 cites excessive fuel prices Road Transport Directive.
The firm's trucks are be auctioned off by C Doncaster on 25 February