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Apr 30, 2008

FUEL COST CRISIS * UK - Truckers take fuel fight to London

Peterborough,UK -The Peterborough Evening Telegraph -30 April 2008: -- Lorry horns blared out as truckers lapped up public support during their protest against record-high fuel cost increases... About 70 vehicles converged on the centre of London as drivers voiced their anger at a 30 per cent rise in diesel pump prices in the last 12 months... The main focal point of the protest was the presentation of a symbolic coffin to Derek Wyatt, Labour MP for the Kent constituency of Sittingbourne and Sheppey... The protestors said the coffin represented the hundreds of hauliers who had gone bankrupt due to high prices at the pump... Joe Cook, of JS Cook and Sons Transport, based in Moulton Chapel, near Spalding, draped a Union Flag over the coffin before presenting it outside the Houses of Parliament, he said: "The price of fuel at the moment is ridiculous. We just don't know whether our jobs are going to be safe. If Gordon Brown doesn't do something about this soon, he'll be out of office"... The independent inquiry into the effect of fuel taxation found that the level of diesel duty in the UK was higher than the average EU rate. Typical articulated vehicles now cost up to £1,000 to refuel every week... Supporting the protest in London was Road Haulage Association chief executive Roger King, who urged the Government to abandon plans to raise fuel duty by 2p next October... Mr King said: "We support a peaceful and legal protest, and that is what this is. We think such an exercise helps underscore the real feelings hauliers have. We forecast that if prices continue to rise, hundreds of hauliers are going to go out of business."... (Pictures: 1. About 70 vehicles descended on the centre of London as part of the protests about the rising cost of fuel - 2. Many of the vehicles carried messages to the Chancellor and Prime Minister about the effect of rising fuel costs on the haulage industry)

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