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NFC boss
HAULIERS should be given cash grants to get out of the industry, National Freight Company chief executive Peter Thompson suggested this week, DAVID WILCOX reports.
Speaking at the Road Haulage Association conference in Scarborough, he said that this could be done to reduce the number ol operators competing in a shrinking market, and added that a precedent has already beer created by doing this for dairy farmers.
He said: "We can talk aboir low rates until it comes out 0. our ears but rates will never IDE right until supply and dement for road haulage is balanced.'
And his idea of stopping thE growing oversupply in haulagE by calling a year's total halt or the issue of further 0-licences was well received. He said thi! would not require legislation only "a sympathetic Transpor Minister to lean on the Licensinf Authorities to slow thing: down."