On the publication of the Freight Supply Chain reports issued by the Transport Select Committee, Karl McCartney MP, Transport Select Committee member, stated: It is clear that the freight industry has to now act to ensure its own house is in order and invest in its own future.  We have been here before as I know from having served on the Transport Select Committee prior to 2017. 

"However, the Government continues to fail to take its own clear duty seriously in investing, or allowing through a sympathetic regulation regime, private investment and improvement in driver facilities which has been raised numerous times. 

Given the amount of tax taken by the Government at the petrol and diesel pumps, and from road users in general, it has run out of excuses for avoiding upgrading the support and facilities it provides those who play this vital role in keeping our nation’s economy moving and supplied in a timely manner."