Truckers

....more likely the cost. Just the TH and NIMBY's were blamed. If "they"
want to build something they will. cf. Airport expansion.

 

Not necessarily, in this case. Not when they planned the line to run
through some of the most affluent areas in the UK. As they did.

 

I think it's also partially that the fucking supermarkets seem to view
lorries as some sort of a rolling warehouse...

 

And thus we see the localvore, emerging from the undergrowf.

http://www.localvore.co.uk/

 

IME - and I have quite a bit in this department - the limiting factor is
financial.

 

Having seen how they operate abroad (Railion) we suspect that if the
contract doesn't return 8% EWS will walk away from it.

Shifting more freight onto the road.

They've already introduce companies within companies - EWS has split its
operation along sector lines (coal="Energy",
ballast/maintenance="Network", aggregates="Construction" etc) operating
an internal market.

To the extent its almost cheaper from one EWS sector to hire in drivers
from a competing railfreight operator rather than another EWS sector.

There is an alternative, rather than use Ben's model of a rush to the
bottom (cut wages, increase hours, reduce equipment investment) another
approach is all companies have to meet minimum requirements to operate -
restrictions on hours, provision of pension, minimum salary etc.

Level the playing field upwards across the whole transport sector.

The same could be applied to the international labour markets - outlaw
sweat shops, child labour and exploitation of migrant labour. So
everyone meets minimum standards and development loans are conditional on
this rather than (currently) opening immature local markets to large
corporations.

I suspect there isn't the will to do this and the race to the bottom
seems so much more attractive. The current EU and World Bank route.

 

Why?

 

It was recently discussed as a mechanism to relieve pressure on the one
of the lines going north while an extra 2 tracks were added. The extra
tracks were to allow "fast" trains to overtake local and E-W ones.

 

<g>

 

aren't you just really agreeing i.e. there wasn't enough money to pay
the NIMBYs off?

 

"knowing your stuff" would have been pretty rare for Cawoods
employees, though to be honest my experience of dealing with them was
in the early 90s, not the 70s.

 

"Localvores are people committed to eating and learning about foods grown
within their local food shed."

PP, BA, spiders etc?

 

There's a time and a place for all forms of communication and to use
them effectively you need to choose the right one for the right time.
I work in glbal teams, sometimes on specific global projects, where we
make extensive use of tele- and video-conferencing, usually sharing
presentations viw LiveMeeting or similar, as well as emails and shared
documents.

But there is a limit to how much you can acheive in these ways, and to
understand that you first need to accept that the constraints on
discussion that they engender, and often the start-up time while
everyone gets connected, effectively wastes perhaps 50% of the
available time. For large teams that can be quite considerable, so
face to face meetings are essential, both to allow more effective
team-working and to get to know your project team members better.

You reckon? Never underaestimate the value of personal contact.

Well I try to minimise the travelling, but OTOH I also hate
ineffective communications and the misunderstandings that they can
lead to.

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Just so - after my father had left, and had, in fact, died.

 

Well, there aren't many executives that recieve incentives based on
improving the remuneration of their workforce.

 

Oil and Coal distribution in N.I. is a cut-throat business.

 

We lack the political will to take possession of the land needed at a
minimised financial recompense to the "squatters".

 

How much are those MAN tractor units you mentioned up there!

 

I am completely in agreement with you. I said as much ^^^ there
somewhere. You also need a maintenance of minimum rates to customers and
proof of financial standing. The Van/Bike courier market is a perfect
example of how it all goes wrong without.

The free market is the correct model but it must be a Regulated free
market.

TBF there is quite a lot of global effort along those lines.

 

Wotno builtin bass guitar amp and rock band playstation game?