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FUEL COST TROUBLES * UK - TRUCKERS' PROTEST
Truckers in fuel price protest
London,UK -This is Local London -29 April 2008: -- Truck convoys will be gathering in the city centre to protest about "the rocketing price of diesel"... Vehicles from across the south east region are believed to be taking part in the demonstration which started this morning at the Medway Services on the M2 in Kent... It will end with a rally in Park Lane, central London, and haulage company representatives will speak about problems in the industry from around 11.30am... Members of protest group TransAction 2007 will then give a letter about the industry's problems to the Sittingbourne and Sheppey MP, Derek Wyatt... Protestors are angry that the price of diesel at the pumps has surged by 30 per cent... Mike Presneill, one of the protest organisers said: "Our industry is the lifeblood of the UK economy. Fuel is rising on a daily basis. It is now at levels that are bankrupting hundreds of small and medium-sized haulage companies. These are the companies that have been built up through hard work often over generations... "To add insult to injury, foreign hauliers are arriving in the UK full to the brim with cheaper fuel and undercutting our rates. They are literally destroying our industry. hey contribute nothing to our economy, take our jobs, wear out our roads and put nothing into the Exchequer."...
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