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:hris Tindall examines DfT figures showing the domestic activities LGVs and the share of the market held by own-account operators.
OVERNM ENT FIGURES for the domestic activity of GB-registered GVs show that in the 26 years between 1980 and 2006 the total mount of freight moved rose by 74%.
Ths increase is less than that of GDP which rose by 92% over the ame period, but it is comparable to that of construction output (77%) nd much greater than the growth of manufacturing output (30%). lowever, there has been a slowdown in the rate of increase over the past 13 years. The Continuing Survey of Road Goods Transport reveals that while total freight moved by road increased by 43% between 1980 and 1993, since then the rate of increase has dropped to 21%.
This slowdown is reflected in the amount of specific products moved: food, drink and tobacco; bulk products and chemicals; petrol and fertiliser. Miscellaneous products, such as machinery and transport equipment and goods not specified elsewhere, are the exception. The amount of goods in this category moved by road rose by 57% between 1980 and 1993, and by 68% from 1993 to 2006.
Between 2005 and 2006, tonnes lifted and tonnes moved (the weight of freight lifted multiplied bythe distance carried, measured in tonne-kilometres, or t-km) increased by 4% and 2% respectively. This can be compared with a 3% rise in GDP over the same period, and a 1% increase in construction and manufacturing outputs. The average length of haul over the past 10 years has fallen by 5% after peaking in 1999.
Over the past 26 years there has been a 25% increase in the amount of freight moved by own-account operators, from 35bn t-km in 1980 to 44bn t-km in 2006. Freight moved by third-party haulage more than doubled in the same period, from 55bn t-km to 112bn t-km.
But the figures for the last decade show a different picture, with freight moved by third-party hauliers increasing by just 3% compared with a 15% rise in freight moved by own-account operators. In recent years the total share of freight moved by third-party haulage operators has been about 75% but the own-account share has begun to increase. Since 2005 freight moved by both types of operator has followed a similar trend, increasing by an average of 2% a year.
Government statistics for freight lifted since 1996, which accounts for the weight of goods but not the distance moved, show third-party haulage had a share of around
—r 62% in 2006. Between 2005 and 2006 § freight lifted by own-account operators N N increased by 3%; freight lifted by third
party hauliers increased by 4%.