Regardless of the premises type of destination, professional producers were four times more likely to use a haulier than a non-assured producer (OR = 4.0, 95% CI 3.7 – 4.3), whereas small producers were 44 times less likely (OR 0.023, 95% CI 0.018 – 0.028) than a non-assured producer.
Figure 5 shows the number and distance distribution of movement between producer types using either a haulier or own vehicles.
Use of a haulier is strongly dependent on the producer type of departure.
When movements to all gathering places were excluded, farms used a range of 1 to 7 hauliers (mean 1.5, median 1.0) to send pigs to other farms, with professional producers using significantly more unique haulage companies (mean = 1.7, median = 1.0) than small producers (mean = 1.2, median = 1.0, P = 0.003).
Compared to shorter distances, movements of more than 200 km were more likely to be made using hauliers (Insert B, Figure 3).
However, distances travelled using hauliers were significantly greater than using private vehicles for all departure types (difference in medians = 174 km, 4.9 km and 75 km for movements to small, non-assured and professional producers, respectively; P < 0.001).
Pigs from non-assured producers were more likely to be transported using hauliers when moving to professional producers (OR = 4.9, 95% CI 3.6 – 6.8) in comparison to another non-assured producer, whereas movements to small producers were more likely made using private vehicles (OR = 8.6, 95% CI 5.9 – 13).
Over plates of daal-fry, bread and curd, he tells us he is a haulier, shipping freight over the border with Bangladesh, but also "a man of many hats.
'At the end of the day, when this is all over, they knew they would have to share the road with us afterwards,' said John Gamble, a haulier who protested in southern England.
