No-deal Brexit would cause massive disruption to channel freight

Thousands of HGV drivers out of a job and millions without the food they have come to expect.

A no-deal Brexit could put thousands of HGV drivers out of a job and millions without the food they have come to expect, the Road Haulage Association has warned.

The RHA has been stung by reports that MPs repeating the mantra: “No deal is better than a bad deal”.

“The stark reality is that if customs controls are put in place, it will take an average of about 45 minutes to process one truck on both sides of the channel. If that happens then the queues of HGVs in Kent will make the jams seen in the summer of 2015 appear as little more than waiting for the traffic lights to change,” said chief executive Richard Burnett.

Burnett pointed out that the Dover Strait currently handles 10,000 lorries a day and processing them through the port is currently seamless. Read more

Source: LOGISTICS MANAGER

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