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Figures - UK - Numbers of eastern European trucks soar
Brinkworth,Wiltshire,UK -Transport Intelligence/FTA -24 February 2006: -- New UK government figures for 2005 indicate an increase in the number of foreign lorries working on UK roads... The UK’s Freight Transport Association estimates that over one in ten of the heaviest vehicles operating in the UK comes from overseas. The latest figures show that most of the increased traffic comes from the new EU accession states which joined in May 2004... Their numbers soared by 62% in 2005 against a 4% fall from other EU member states... The FTA is concerned that foreign vehicles pay zero taxes in the UK, very rarely buy fuel in the UK (because of cheaper duty levels in Europe), operate on relatively cheap labour and are thus able to offer haulage rates impossible for the UK industry to match without endangering their viability... The report is not all bad news for the UK industry, with figures showing journeys by UK international hauliers returning to levels last seen in 2001... However, the relative economy of using foreign haulage to deliver to the UK is demonstrated by the continuing fall in the numbers of unaccompanied trailers arriving in the UK, down again by three per cent. The figures suggest that it is cheaper to send a vehicle, driver and load to the UK than to ship the trailer to a UK port to be collected by a UK domestic haulier subject to UK costs...
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