• Livestock hauliers will have to accept regulations much tougher
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than current law if they want to join a quality assurance scheme introduced last week by an animal welfare charity.
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ailimals. Freedom Food campaign is being promoted to meat consumers, with farmers, hauliers and slaughtermen expected to follow its strict rules on the treatment of livestock (CM 22-28 April).
to abattoirs every eight hours, instead of the 15 currently demanded by law. The first part of the code, covering pig transport and handling, says: Animals should be unloaded imme diately after arriving at the abattoir; L._ Drivers must be trained on an approved course, which could be arranged by the RSPCA: L "Livestock capacity documents" should be carried showing the rapacity of the truck for various species under various climatic conditions The success of the project depends on public acceptance. Only meat that complies with the code, which covers rearing, transportation and slaughter, will win the standard. • Foden and Crane Fruehauf are taking on extra staff to keep up with rising demand.
Sancibach-based Foden is increasing its hourly paid production workforce by 20% to 480; recruits will have temporary status for six months Managing director Rod Heather says he is seeing some growth in the demand for vehicles at 17 tonnes and above—the plant is building four trucks a day compared with three or fewer last year.
"Customers are genuinely busier, but I don't want to paint too rosy a picture. I am cautiously optimistic," he says.
Crane Fruehauf communications director Graham Thomson says the 60 additional hourly paid staff members the company is recruiting are needed to fulfill a clutch of recently placed contracts worth £5m for the tanker and general haulage markets.
They will work at Crane Fruehauf's Dereham and North W-alsharn plants.