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 (