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DoT sends experts to help hauliers
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• A pilot scheme has been launched by the Department of Transport to see how the haulage industry can be helped to modernise.
The first visits are taking place in the West Country; over the next few months 100 hauliers will be visited by Road Haulage and Freight Transport Association experts who will examine all aspects of their operations to find and solve weaknesses.
The £100,000 pot scheme is designed to find out how the government can best help hauliers become more efficient. In
July it announced ,E2m to help the industry adopt the best practices available, particularly in the areas of fuel efficiency and T systems.
In theory the scheme will be open to anyone, but most operators involved in the pilot are running five or fewer trucks and were invited to take part.
"We have started the visits and so far the reaction from hauliers has beer very positive," says one of the scheme's coordinators, RHA regional manger Mike Farmer. "We are concentrating on
smaller hauliers to start with as ther€ was a feeling that they would be in need o. the most help, but it is open to anyone. don't want to pre-empt the pilot's findingE so I don't want to say what we have four( at this stage."
At the end of the 100 interviews Mt organisers will report back to the Dol with a set of proposals to roll out acrosE the industry, probably in April. Civil ser vants will decide the next move, but the are expected to follow the organisers recommendations.