Dip demands TIR survey help
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• UK international operators are to be forced to take part in Department of Transport surveys into overseas haulage.
The DTp has taken the step because so few transport companies were filling in its voluntary questionnaires. "We only had a 1% response, which was statistically unreliable," says a department spokesman.
The annual surveys, which provide information on the type of journeys made by British hauliers, will be sent to a sample of the country's 3,000 international operators on a rolling basis.
Firms refusing to participate will be fined.
Hauliers will only have to give details of about 4% of their journeys, says the DTp.
Previously about 700 companies had volunteered for a register used for the surveys, but only half of these were eventually taking part.
The DTp's latest survey, for 1990, is available from DTp Publications Sales Unit, Building 1, Victoria Road, South Ruislip, Middx HA4 ONZ.