Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 5 November 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications

National Postcode System: Freight Transport Association Ireland

9:35 am

Mr. Tom Carr:

I understand it is easy for us to talk about it. Just to explain, if we get in 2,000 pallets tonight and we have 200 trucks around the country delivering those, we cannot put a run on each truck to say "X1, X2, X3, X4". If we took Eircode as it is and we followed a system, we could have a truck going to Westport, his next delivery could be in Ballina, and his next one could be back to Westport again. As there is no sequencing in the system, there is no natural run to put on a truck or a van. Does that explain the situation? It is of no use to us; there is no logic to its numbering system.

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