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THE HAULIERS' VIEW TRANSPARENCY AND TECHNOLOGY
29th March 2007, Page 29
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Transport, Technology, Land Transport, Transport Economics, Road Transport, Traffic Law, Transportation Planning, Pricing, Tachograph, Transparency, Road Pricing, Global Positioning System, Technology / Internet, Business / Finance
Bart Verbeke: Intermodal director at P&O Ferrymasters, suggests any scheme in the UK would have to be transparent to ensure that the costs imposed on hauliers could be passed onto customers: If we can't show them how much we have to pay to deliver, how can we ask them to cover that cost?"
David Hindson, strategy and marketing director at TOG, says the key to road pricing is technology: -At present within our vehicles we must have electronic signature machines, mobile phones, GPS, security devices and engine-management systems as well as the tachograph and this means we have a dozen processors, three or four screens and a couple of printers. But I believe that a single device that could do all of that, plus the road pricing, would be ideal."
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