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New dawn or false dawn?

ROB McKAY has been a journalist for more than three decades, with the last 25 years focused on national and international freight transport

Behold, the power of the trucking lobby! It seems like only a few years ago, a veritable yesterday, that this column was castigating the rail and green lobbies for beating the same old boring drum on how the ‘road lobby’ – read, traditionally, mostly trucking with some big construction

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