John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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Let us take the example of a haulier who is servicing the English market. His or her job will be to pick up a load in Kilkenny and complement that load. As a result of the fact that he or she is a groupage operator, he or she will heads towards the Border area and try to fill the container so that he or she has a full load of 50 different consignments. The driver has to have the paperwork for those 50 consignments. The burden of the paperwork trail rests with each of the companies from which the driver picked up a consignment. The driver has the burden of ensuring that he will be able to get through customs and has all the correct documentation. Otherwise, the logistics operator or the haulier will incur further costs.