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Anti-tank mine wounds Croatian driver in Iraq
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You think driving over here is tough?
Be thankful you aren't working in the Middle East David Harris reports.
THE DANGERS OF delivering freight to Iraq were underlined last week when a truck driven by a Croatian driver was blown up by an anti-tank mine.
The Croatian Road Hauliers Association says he is being treated in a US military hospital.
Few UK commercial drivers go to Iraq today the firms that send freight normally trans-ship in Turkey or Kuwait, with local companies taking the freight on the second leg of its journey.
Essex-based Claridon Transport, for example, sends freight to Baghdad but only sends its UK drivers as far as Turkey. Claridon's general manager, Mo Hadjkura, explains that the freight normally enters Iraq as part of a military convoy. He says there have been no violent incidents so far, even though the military escort "sometimes goes away".
As well as drivers and vehicles the Turkish partner also takes care of goods-in-transit insurance on the second part of the journey.