Swiss shock
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INTERNATIONAL hauliers face additional annual charges ranging up to almost ELMO if they use Swiss roads from next January following a national referendum held earlier this year.
The scale of charges, which has now been published, states that an annual levy of between 500 and 3,000 Swiss francs (depending on the category of vehicle and weight) will be payable by all motor vehicles and trailers — Swiss or foreign registered — weighing over 3.5 tonnes for the use of roads open to general traffic (and not just motorways).
Last-minute moves in the EEC — whose hauliers make extensive use of Switzerland as a transit country — are not likely to affect the decision.
Belgian MEP Luc Beyer de Ryke appealed to the EEC Commission last month to ask the Swiss to postpone the introduction of the fees.
TRANSPORT and Warehousing Facilities of Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, is to open a new facility in Erith, Kent, to store and distribute traditional ales for four breweries. The brewers, in relative terms, are small and they said that distribution by their own transport was disproportionally costly.
TWF will provide vehicles in a composite livery under the contract name of "Brewer's Dray" for Adnams, Everarde, Godsons and Ruddles. The firm will offer a next-day service on a regular basis.