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RAIL STRIKE '94

1st September 1994
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Hauliers keeping Britain moving

• The Institute of Directors says that 20% of the companies which are using more road haulage because of the rail strike will not return to rail when the strike ends. More than 30% of companies claimed the strike was having a serious financial impact. Now in its 12th week, the rail strike is costing Frame, Somersetased aggregates producer Foster Yeoman £50,000 a week. The company is using more road transport to ensure that its 7.0 million tonne annual output of aggregates reaches its depots across the country.

"One area we haven't been able to get to on strike days by rail is Southampton and east of London," says rail manager Alan Taylor. 'The Isle of Grain sea terminal has been able to do a limited supply by rood to back up." Seventy per cent of Foster Yeoman's production goes by rail and the remainder is delivered by road within a 40-mile radius of the quarries. Predicting how many subcontractors will be needed to support Foster Yeoman's 250-strong fleet of trucks is difficult, says Taylor. "If the road building programme continues in autumn the strike will affect us more," he says. But Foster Yeoman is still committed to the railways: its quarries are working at weekends and at nights to get orders out on non-strike days.

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Organisations: Institute of Directors
People: Alan Taylor
Locations: Southampton, London

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