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C-Licensees Into Europe

10th November 1961, Page 82
10th November 1961
Page 82
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MORE and more concerns in Britain are using their own vehicles for direct road deliveries of their products to customers in European countries, reports the Traders Road Transport Association. The association's International Department has noticed a particularly large increase in the past few months. The T.R.T.A. is empowered to issue the official document known as a T.I.R. carnet; equipped with this, a vehicle whose load is sealed before leaving the U.K. can be driven through intervening countries without any further Customs examination. Included in the countries which recognize the T.I.R. carnet are Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and Switzerland. Vehicles travelling under this scheme carry large

blue plates with " T.I.R." in • white letters. Occasional problems concerning construction and use regulations, which vary from country to country, can often be solved through the T.R.T.A.'s sister organizations on the Continent.

Speed of delivery, certainty of timing, avoidance of breakage or pilfering and reduction in packing costs seem to be the prime reasons why this self-delivery export business is growing. One firm which manufactures fragile articles is thinking of establishing its own fleet of specially designed vehicles for a delivery schedule embracing Holland, Switzerland and Italy, while an engineering group is already running a weekly service for its lorries between West London and its Rouen depot.