Hauliers win space on Sunday shuttle
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IN UK hauliers will be able to use the Le-Shuttle freight service on Sundays following a French government backdown against tunnel owner Eurotunnel. After months of lobbying by Eurotunnel, a French ban on lorries using the service on Sundays was overturned in what the company says will be an important boost to its freight traffic.
The French government has agreed to let lorries through the tunnel from 14:00hrs on Sunday, although to comply with French law—which restricts freight traffic on roads
on Sundays—they will still be forced to wait eight hours before they can leave Eurotunnel's terminal at Sangatte. A Le-Shuttle spokesman says: -This is only a minor victory but an himortant one in our battle to receive equal treatment with the crossChannel ferry operators."
C The French government has also agreed to lift a requirement that non-EC drivers using the tunnel had to obtain a special permit to travel to the Belgian border via a 30km stretch of road, unlike lorries that travelled on the ferries.