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OPINION * Europe - Moves towards a freer road freight market
The 'EU Road Transport Package', does have important implications for the working of the continent's road freight market
London,UK -Transport Intelligence, by Thomas Cullen -5 Oct 2009: ... The agreement addresses the difficult question of 'cabotage' or movement of goods by trucks from another country. Although in theory a free-trade zone, in reality truck drivers cannot work freely across the different countries of the European Community. The new regulations on cabotage now permit drivers who have entered a foreign EU state to deliver goods, to make one collection and delivery in that state within a seven day window. The driver may go on to make a collection and delivery in a further two states that he crosses in order to return to his country of origin... This represents a significant move towards a freer and more coherent road freight market in Europe. The regulations are expected to be enforced around the beginning of 2010... An important corollary to this is the movement towards standardisation of operating licenses for road freight companies in the EU... The issue of foreign drivers operating in national transport markets is an increasingly important one for the global transport market as the quantity of material being moved across foreign borders increases... (Photo from acea.be: An EU Trucker)
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