Uncommon Market probe
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IN ORDER to discover just how uncommon the Common Market is, Conservative MEP Robert Moreland is spending a week in the cab of a 32.5-ton ner on the roads in Europe.
He left Tilbury at 6.30 on Monday morning bound for Italy with a load of furniture, carpe4s, shirts, jeans and engineering parts.
Mr Moreland, a member of the Parliament's transport committee, said before he left: "Delays on the EEC's frontiers cost industry anything between £600m and £1,000m per year.
"I want to see for myself how Customs procedures can create bottlenecks. I am trying to find if there is any discrimination against foreign drivers and how the rules on tachographs are applied. Also I hope to use rest stops to talk to other drivers about the hold-ups and other difficulties they experience."
Mr Moreland will use his experiences gained on the trip in a report he is presenting to the European Parliament on road haulage problems.