His firm mainly transports food and food packaging across the UK, Simpson said.
“A lot of these products come in from abroad, and you can imagine now, we shall start to see containers being held up.”
“So it isn’t just the fuel that’s causing a problem,” he said, “it’s going to be container supplies.”
He added his firm was fortunate to have a strong customer base and it had already weathered three recessions, so had planned accordingly.
“But it will affect us, there’s no doubt about it, and it will affect the haulage industry throughout the UK.
“Some transport firms are going to find it very difficult to continue.”
He said it was important the general public did not panic buy fuel, but predicted consumers would ultimately be impacted by increasing costs for firms like his.
“It will have to be passed on to the customer eventually.”