Coal loads lost as Rugby Cement reverts to rail
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• Hauliers have lost lucrative loads following a decision by Barrington-based Rugby Cement to switch a 60,000-tonne annual coal supply contract back to rail, after four years of using road transport.
"It was 40% price and 60% environmental," says technical manager Norman Jones. referring to complaints by nearby villagers over the 100 trucks that bring coal through Foxton to the plant each week.
The contract was controlled by an agent who supplied local haulage firms with the work, mostly as backloads.
Rugby Cement hopes to haul
in up to 15,000 tonnes of secondary liquid fuel by road tanker each week but is waiting to hear if it has won permission from Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Pollution to change its fuel burning pattern.
C The news comes as car distributor Walon announced its involvement in a LlOm openaccess road/rail interchange to open at Corby next January.
It has teamed up with French car transporter STVA to set up Autolink, which will be open for any company moving vehicles between the Continent and the UK through the Channel Tunnel.