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Road costs hit tipper hauliers

31st December 1976
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BRITAIN'S tipper operators face a grim year ahead as fleets are laid up and work becomes scarce with the cuts in public expenditure.

The eighth reduction in the road programme in three years has hammered another nail in the coffin of many operators, according to reports from around the country this week.

But in Hull the complaint of tippermen is with the Humberside County Council. Road Haulage Association area secretary Margaret Edmunds told CM that she had written to the council complaining that local operators were not getting a chance on council contracts.

"The work is going to outof-town companies and our people are missing out on contracts. If it goes on like this it will be unemployment for many of them," she said.

Nationwide, the effects of cuts in public expenditure are being felt by the tippermen. As road contracts end and the prospect of more fades, operators in the South West are wondering where the next job is coming from, said Mr B. Elliott, Devon and Cornwall RHA secretary.

South Wales secretary for the RHA Mr P. J. Webb reported that the area's problems of stagnation were being made worse by the cuts in the road programme.

In the East Midlands Bill Morton reported that tippermen were being hit badly by the lack of road contracts, and general haulage was also suffering.

Rates for tipping work are also at rock bottom and Mr Webb predicted that many of the fleets laid up now would be off the road for good unless the whole economic picture brightens.


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