Freight Exchanges Help Defend Haulage Companies From Exorbitant UK Fuel Prices
As the haulage industry's hostility to the alarming domestic fuel price increases, there is more and more talk of industrial action. Fortunately, more and more owner operators and hauliers are switching to freight exchanges to minimise fuel costs at this difficult time. Hauliers keen to protect their profits against the rising UK fuel prices should visit Haulage Exchange
London, UK (PRWEB) November 28, 2007 -- While the Road Haulage Association urges haulage companies and owner operators not to repeat 2001's fuel blockades or to instigate industrial action, the government may have found an unlikely friend in haulage industry hub Haulage Exchange. The company, an online freight exchange designed to allow owner operators and haulage companies to swap their loads and ensuring they are never running empty, could help prevent hauliers dissatisfaction levels from tipping over into high profile protest by helping them to run at a profit, despite the spiralling domestic fuel prices.
Haulage Exchange's managing director, Lyall Cresswell, believes that haulage companies and owner operators currently feeling a financial pinch should look into the cost saving methods provided by freight exchanges: "If you're running inefficiently, and taking, say, a load from London to Newcastle, then coming back and taking another to Cardiff and then coming back for more you're talking about a lot of dead mileage, where the petrol costs are going to eat into your resources," he argues. "If, on the other hand you've arranged to take a backload with you from Newcastle back to London, and another from Cardiff you're actually being compensated for the inconvenience of having to pay unreasonable petrol prices and ensuring your finances don't suffer," he concluded.
Some owner operators and smaller haulage companies are struggling to get by thanks to UK fuel prices inflating at an uncontrolled rate in recent years. Since 1999, domestic fuel prices have risen by 50% and by 23% over the last three years. Over the last 2 months, the prices have continued to rise on a weekly basis hitting the haulage industry the hardest. Critics argue that haulage companies should be given tax breaks on petrol as they cannot make alternative travel arrangements in the same way other motorists can. Analysts are also concerned that any additional taxes passed onto hauliers will eventually cause increased rates for consumers, passing the taxation burden back to the general public.
While the Road Haulage Association is requesting its members do not resort to desperate measures - with industrial action and fuel blockades touted as possibilities - the government is holding firm in its refusal to make allowances for the haulage industry. While freight exchanges like Haulage Exchange can hold back a potentially embarrassing high profile protest for a while, the wider feeling of the industry is that the government needs to act soon if the haulage industry's resentment is to go no further.
About Haulage Exchange
With offices in London and Nottingham, Haulage Exchange is one of the UK's leading independent freight exchanges for the 7.5 Tonne market and beyond. Its sister site, Courier Exchange, is the UK's biggest exchange for express and same day movements and is now in its eighth year of trading.
Membership of the exchange is limited to accredited transport professionals, and offers them the chance to buy and sell domestic and international road transport industry services such as full loads, backloads, return loads, freight forwarding, and road haulage.
For more information, please contact Lyall Cresswell:
Haulage Exchange
Cumberland House
80 Scrubs Lane
London
NW10 6RF
0870 241 1472
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