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Grant angers livestock hauliers
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A £97,000 grant to improve he efficiency of air cargo delivries by road has angered livetock hauliers who claim they hould be prioritised for help Rhin road transport.
The research by Till is being ailed by the Department of ransport to find out how truck tilisation and fuel economy can e improved and how freight ransfers can be speeded up. Transport minister David amicson says: "Increasing emands are being placed on
the air cargo industry and we want to know what more can be done to reduce some of the environmental casts that it imposes."
Darren Towell. partner in Towel! Transport Services based near Heathrow Airport, says increased efficiency will be hard to achieve. With air freight, nine times out of 10 the vehicle is empty for half of the journey but you just get a call and have to go. You don't have time to plan anything."
Livestock and animal feed hauliers say their sector needs help far more urgently than air freight because it is still reeling from the effects of foot and mouth.
Bob Mckinnon blames the outbreak for closing his family haulage business down (CM 22-28
November). "Maybe Fm a wee bit cynical but I made all the inquiries I possibly could about getting help. They told me I could delay my VAT payments."
A Scottish livestock haulier, who asked to remain anonymous, says that between February and August, foot and mouth cost his business between £80,000 and £100,000 a month, "The government are not prioritising help anything like fairly. They have lost their direction altogether."