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• Road haulage has been slow to get to grips with the information superhighway—only 43% of firms use a web site, e-mail or electronic data interchange.
These results, from a survey carried out by the Governmentled Information Society Initiative (ISO, confirm that the road haulage sector lags behind the rest of the UK: the national average stands at 63%.
The El survey also found that 13% of transport firms do not have a computer and only 29% of businesses have their own web sites.
Although the use of mobile phones is high-94% of companies use them—other communications methods such as email are running "well below the UK average".
Haulage was also found to be the industrial sector with the least idea of the impact that new technology might have in the future; only 24% of operators were found to be enthusiastic about digital communications.