Backload figures improving
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• The distance covered by empty trucks without backloads fell 2.5% between 1983 and 1992, according to a report by the HeriotWatt Business School.
The Empty Running and Return Loadings of Rood Goods Vehicles in the UK identifies a number of reasons for this trend including longer journeys; the increasing proportion of trips including five or more drops; the expansion of load-matching services; the growth in the reverse flow of packaging for recycling; and backload schemes set up by producers and distributors.
In 1993, Safeway was backloading more than a million cases of supplies each week while the Costcutter supermarket chain was collecting around 309. of its supplies on backhauls from its main wholesale supplier. For a copy of the report contact (0131) 449 5111 .