Government figures indicate more couriers on the country's roads
Date: 20 February 2008
New government figures indicate that there could be more couriers operating on the UK's roads.
Provisional data released by the Department of Transport showed that light van traffic increased by ten per cent in the fourth quarter of 2007 and that goods vehicle traffic rose by three per cent. These both indicate that more couriers were using the UK's roads during this period.
Overall, the figures showed that estimated traffic levels fell by 0.9 per cent between the fourth quarters of 2006 and 2007 and that car traffic dropped by three per cent.
The provisional data also compared 2007 with 2006 as a whole. This showed that light van traffic rose nine per cent over the year and that goods vehicle numbers increased by one per cent.
It also showed that couriers might have found their journeys got faster on some roads as traffic on urban A roads decreased by two per cent, as did congestion on minor urban roads.
However, a statement from the Department of Transport added: "Average vehicle delay on the slowest ten per cent of journeys rose from 3.78 to 4.05 minutes per ten miles between the baseline year and the latest year.
"Over the same period, average journey time on these journeys rose from 13.4 to 13.7 minutes per ten miles."
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