Brewers in the counting house

摘要

Last month's Brewery Transport Advisory Committee (BTAC) Daventry seminar on "keeping the lid on costs" could hardly have been timed better. The government's budget was only two weeks away; the price of crude oil was over US$30 a barrel; and the morning's newspapers were reporting that 44-tonne trucks had been given the thumbs up by the Commission for Integrated Transport, a government advisory body.