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Working Time Directive's silver lining
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HAULIERS WILL increasingly look to alliances to meet their delivery requirements with the approach of the Working Time Directive, says a leading SouthWest haulier.
Bristol-based David Hathaway Transport says business has been booming recently as customers look to find ways around the forthcoming legislation.
Bob Richards, general manager at the 55-truck firm, explains: "There's a definite change in people's thought patterns at the moment they're panicking about the WorkingTime Directive. We've had a lot of hauliers and logistics firms approach us about doing regional distribution for them: Richards reports that groupage loads are trunked to its Yate depot and unloaded, broken down and then consolidated for final delivery across the SouthWest of England.
"Hauliers from the North don't want their drivers to be wasting hours getting to the far depths of Cornwall." he adds.
Hathaway, which has just taken delivery of a Topline -cabbed Scania R-series, is currently providing the service for three -major logistics providers" and half-adozen regional hauliers.
Turnover at the firm is growing by as much as 30% year on year.