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Icensing npi profit
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7.. NATIONAL Freight Corttion has told the Foster tmittee that it believes the ent 0-Licence system has ied low profitability, overcity, and below-average oloyment conditions.
its second submission to ter, NFC has drawn upon experience of other couns' road haulage licensing tems and has compared ;e to British working.
: believes that the main ective of any regulatory tern should be to ensure t the customer has the lest choice of transport le to suit his needs.
addition, NFC says the tem should:— enable suppliers of transt to obtain a reasonable of return from resources le industry.
encourage the highest -idards of safety, maintece and operation.
promote conditions of aloyment and pay which comparable with the best 3ritish industry.
promote the efficient use of )urces within the industry. he NFC submission points that market forces have the principal means of iblishing freedom of choice he United Kingdom, but it s that this has proved very Ar to operate when demand lines and there is an nomic recession, resulting over-capacity and inefent use of resources.
t feels that insufficient aditage has been taken of the ent swing towards larger ies, and says that it appears Lt each vehicle has been rying proportionately less nes per km in relation to its ximum capacity.
,IFC says that inadequate ifitability leads eventually poorer service, unemploynt, and a drop in safety ndards.
t proposes a British adviy body which would m oniroad haulage programmes, inly in financial terms, in tnership with the Licensing thorities.
Iowever, from foreign dence mainly, it has ected any idea of tariffican.