With 44 days to go until the UK leaves the single market, the UK Government has published a semi-complete version of its online Haulier Handbook. The resource provides guidance not just for British hauliers, but also for the EU transportation companies carrying goods into the UK.
In addition, 45 advice centres have opened at key motorway service stations and truck stops across the country, giving hauliers and drivers the chance to answer questions about Brexit preparations and requirements.
The Haulier Handbook will eventually be translated into 13 different languages, so it could act as a one-stop-shop for providing key information and advice on customs procedures, as well as how hauliers can prepare themselves, their vehicles and their goods for crossing between the EU and the UK after January 1st 2021.
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With only weeks to go, it’s crucial that hauliers do everything they can now to prepare for new trading rules” – says Road Haulage Association Chief Executive Richard Burnett. “Deal or no deal, firms will have to undertake customs processes to continue moving goods across borders from 1 January.”
The aforementioned Advice Centres are COVID-secure sites located at key motorway service stations and truck stops across the UK road network. Each site offers hauliers one-to-one training on the new ‘Check an HGV’ service and upcoming changes to border processes that come into effect at the end of the transition period.
The locations of the advice centres are as follows:
- Ashford International Truck Stop
- Burtonwood (Merseyside)
- Carlisle Stobart Truck Stop
- Cannock Roadking
- Charnock Richard Services northbound
- Cherwell Valley
- Clacket Lane eastbound
- Cullompton
- Doncaster North
- Donington Park
- Ferrybridge Services
- Fleet southbound
- Formula Services (Ellesmere Port)
- Hartshead Moor (Huddersfield)
- Heywood Distribution Truck Stop
- Holyhead Truck Stop
- Hopwood Park
- Leicester Forest East northbound
- Leicester Forest East southbound
- Lockerbie Truck Stop
- Maidstone Services
- Medway Services eastbound
- Medway Services westbound
- Orwell Crossing Truck Stop
- Peterborough
- Rownhams northbound
- Rugby Stobart Truck Stop
- Sandbach northbound
- Sandbach southbound
- South Mimms
- Stafford northbound
- The Stockyard Truckstop Rotherham
- Strensham northbound
- Strensham southbound
- Sutton Scotney northbound
- Sutton Scotney southbound
- Tamworth Services
- Thurrock Services
- Truck Haven (Carnforth)
- Warrington Lymm
- Watford Gap northbound
- Watford Gap southbound
- Wetherby Services
- Woodall northbound
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