Tarmac Quarry to talk tipping rates
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by Amanda Bradbury
• A long-awaited upturn in the fortunes of tipper and concretemixer owner-drivers working for large construction companies comes this week with the news that Tarmac Quan-y Products is to negotiate on rates.
Quarry Products' subsidiary Tarmac Roadstone-owned quarry at New Cliffe Hill, near Coalville, Leics, is holding talks with the 25 owner-drivers contracted to the quarry.
Some of Tarmac Roadstone's 628 contracted owner-drivers across the country have not received a rates increase for six years: other construction giants have refused an increase for up to seven years. An increase at New Cliffe Hill is bound to fuel demands for rises across the country: Tarmac Quarry Products' profits fell from I:26.6m in 1992 to £20.3m last year.
Rival quarry operator Tilcon says that between 60 and 70 owner-drivers and contract hauliers working from its Swinden, Yorks quarry will not suffer when it switches much of the work to rail.
Truck movements will fall by 200 a day from this week with the opening of the company's rail distribution depot at Cross Green, Yorks.
But the company anticipates that an upturn in road building will increase work in the area moving coated roadstone.