Extended delivery times for trucking freight
Date: 10 December 2007
London delivery times for freight haulage drivers carrying loads are being relaxed, Commercial Motor reports.
Freight haulage drivers carrying loads and heavy haulage lorries with trucking freight will be allowed a 40-minute window to load or unload, up from 20 minutes.
This will please road haulage companies delivering their loads in the capital, but the London Council has also said that pre-11am delivery rules will come to an end, which is when freight haulage drivers could take as long as they wanted to unload.
The Freight Transport Association is somewhat worried that logistics drivers from road haulage companies with deliveries taking longer than 40 minutes will be penalised.
The new rules for haulage deliveries were implemented in Kensington & Chelsea Council at the beginning of November, followed by Islington at the start of this month. Camden will probably follow these logistics load rules in the middle of December.
The local authorities do not have to implement these freight haulage changes, and some will probably not.
Natalie Chapman of the FTA said: "Westminster certainly has realised it wants to keep as many deliveries [of freight loads] as possible pre-11am as there is less footfall traffic. This time slot seems a strange choice today but the fact is it [the current arrangement for delivery of trucking freight] works so we say don't fix it."
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