Hauliers face lottery for permits in no-deal Brexit
A lottery-style system could be used to allocate scarce haulage permits in the event of a no-deal Brexit, a Department for Transport paper has revealed.
The paper says hauliers will need permits if no deal is struck, and the number of European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT) permits available will be severely limited. One estimate suggests there will be only around 5% of the total required.
The paper suggests there will be a element of chance as to which hauliers are offered the permits, to allow as many hauliers as possible to continue to operate.
But the DfT said allocating on those criteria alone would lead to an allocation solely for the biggest firms, forcing many smaller ones out of business.
The department says it has thus decided that its system for allocation will also include “a weighted random element to the scoring of applications”, which it says will give the highest-scoring operators “many but not all of the permits they applied for”.
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