Busy Christmas for freight haulage professionals
Date: 17 December 2007
The Freight Transport Association (FTA) revealed that the ten days from December 13th are some of the most hectic for the country's freight haulage companies and other owner operators.
In fact, the FTA said that the country's 440,000 lorries and the 1.5 million people employed in transport and logistics will be working hard to make sure that shops, offices, pubs and restaurants are fully stocked over the festive period.
"Everything that we use or consume in our daily life is the product of a lorry journey and, quite simply, we cannot live without the lorry," explained the FTA's director of external affairs, Geoff Dossetter.
"The efficiency of modern logistics is astonishing, with an incredible range of goods and services being delivered reliably and on-time by a hi-tech industry that is increasingly moving more goods, to more locations, and to more people.
"The road transport industry is the unsung hero of British business and this Christmas it will be delivering the goods in the same safe, reliable and efficient way as ever."
Recently, freight haulage professionals and other owner operators protested that rising fuel costs were making it harder to generate profits over the Christmas period.
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