NO CHEER AND PLENTY TO FEAR FOR FRENCH DRIVERS THIS CHRISTMAS
December 1st, 2008
BY GRAHAM TEARSE
THE FESTIVE season has by-passed the road haulage business in France. There is overriding gloom as businesses are daily going bust amid a devastating economic downturn, while there is widespread dread over the impending arrival of cabotage rights for east European transporters.
Between January and November this year, 2,055 French road haulage companies went into receivership: 97% more than the same period in 2007, according to the Fédération Nationale des Transporteurs Routiers (FNTR), the largest representative body of French road haulage ...
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