'Market forces will win
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• Plans for a "crisis mechanism" to deal with overcapacity in Europe's haulage industry after 1992 will create "unnecessary bureacracy" and will not help match supply and demand, according to the Freight Transport Association.
In a new booklet called Freight Facts, the FTA says that the deregulation of the UK industry after 1968 has shown that market forces have been "the most effective method of regulating supply and demand."
The FTA also criticises a draft EC directive, which lays down minimum daily rest periods for all workers and which may be imposed on transport operators who already comply with drivers' hours laws.
"Such legislation is unnecessary as these matters are best dealt with through employer/ employee negotiation," says the FTA, which also spells out its views on weights and dimensions, dangerous goods and transit countries and explains current European Community legislation in the new booklet priced at 25. Freight Facts 1190 is available from FTA sales office, Hermes House, St John's Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN4 9UZ. DISTRIBUTION EUROPE