Drivers restricted to not working longer than 12 hours in a day but complications with harvest following wettest July on record seeing time being wasted
“We are only asking for 30 days and limiting that to grain hauliers. We have just a month to do this to save the grain harvest, particularly for the malting industry”, he said.
He warned “a substantial risk to production currently exists in the malting barley sector where the quality of grain is rapidly declining, with a significant quantity of this crop now failing to meet the required specifications. Two of the big quality parameters impacting this crop include grain moisture content and grain germinative capacity; the latter required to be above a strict 98 per cent threshold.
A spokesman for the Department of Transport said it had initially refused the derogation following consultation with the Road Safety Authority and the Department of Agriculture.
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