Bisnis pengangkutan Lihatlah Biaya dan Green Pilihan

The top haulage businesses are (sensibly) always reassessing the best way to look at their transport arrangements and how to award their haulage jobs - either to employees on their payroll or to self-employed drivers. But the consistently steep rise in fuel costs, along with direct taxation, maintenance and funding the purchase of vehicles, is a constant dilemma for all transport accountants. tas kulit cantik

During the years of the recession, many businesses have moved their haulage jobs from an internal source to external agencies, as they seek to reduce the overall expenditure for transporting their goods across the UK and elsewhere. Accountants involved with making financial decisions about transport are constantly assessing whether they have reached the point where they should outsource transport work, or keep the costs within their own business and look to fill each load comprehensively.

Looking for a green solution

The media is repeatedly advertising the "highest ever" price of petrol and diesel at the pumps, and although it may come down a little way, there does not look to be a long-term prospect of lower energy costs until inventors find a way to transfer the new energy sources for vehicles, like electric and solar cars, on to much larger vehicles for haulage jobs.

Governments consistently look to diesel and petrol to increase their tax revenue at every budget, whereas the installation of a charging station that could provide enough electricity for free, from solar panels, may be the answer for electric vehicles once they can travel far enough without needing a recharge. We are almost certainly years away from a large lorry being able to work completely from solar panels on the roof, but the roof space is often equal to or more than many properties that are totally powered by solar energy, so a solution must exist somewhere.

Margins are continually being squeezed to the absolute maximums to ensure that businesses are able to deliver goods at the lowest possible price for the end consumer. Inevitably this means that owner-drivers are suffering when they try to compete for haulage jobs.

The answer across the UK is clearly not to return to the railway system, because this causes more problems than it helps with solutions, but encouraging freighters to send more full loads in both directions - making the business and the goods available at a much better price for everyone in the food chain.

Some people will argue that an increase in small vans, which are run by electricity, hydrogen or solar power, would be more effective than using large lorries for many haulage jobs, but the majority of this is just talk at present and the proof of these changes will almost certainly not be seen within the next decade or two.

Norman Dulwich is a correspondent for Haulage Exchange, the world's largest neutral trading hub for same day haulage jobs in the express freight exchange industry. Over 2,500 transport exchange businesses are networked together through their website, trading jobs and capacity in a safe 'wholesale' environment.

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