AN UNUSUAL trucking anomaly has raised its head in Cape Town, and one which Colin Schultz, chairman of the Western Cape Cargo Owners Association (WCCOA), has noted for the first time in 16 years. “Trucks out of Cape Town for Gauteng are becoming limited in numbers whereas before there was always an excess. This because most of the cargo movement was southbound with a lot of trucks facing an empty return leg to Gauteng.” But, for some reason - and Schultz has yet to work out what it is - there now seems to be a lack of loads in Gauteng, and empty trucks looking for Cape Town loads a bit of a rarity. Schultz can’t say whether this is just a temporary cyclical event. “But in all my time in the Cape Town freight industry, I’ve never seen this before, so it’s not normal,” he said. It could be the congestion issue, Schultz added. “But there’s just no hard proof one way or another.”
