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Foreign Trucks * UK - Set to flood Britain's roads as Brussels passes new law
London,UK -The Daily Mail, by Tom Harper and Rhodri Phillips -1st June 2008: -- European truck drivers are set to swarm on to Britain’s roads because of new competition laws passed in Brussels... Foreign lorries are currently banned from acquiring fresh business in the UK once they have delivered their loads here, except in exceptional circumstances... But a new regulation, passed by the EU Parliament last month, will let European hauliers take on three more British jobs before returning home within a week... This will rise to seven jobs by 2010, and by 2014 the new law will allow them unlimited access to UK markets – both in the number of jobs and the time it takes to do them... As overseas hauliers use cheaper fuel and unregulated labour, particularly from Eastern Europe, British operators claim they will be unable to compete... Experts believe that the move will cost the British economy an estimated £165million and cause hundreds of small hauliers to close... The Freight Transport Association claims that the EU law change will put hundreds of British hauliers out of business. It adds that it will cost Britain up to £165million a year – £115million in lost fuel duty, £20million in vehicle excise duty and £30million in income tax... Thousands of families driving home from Cornwall at the end of half-term were severely delayed yesterday as a convoy of 300 trucks and tractors drove at 10mph along the main A30 between Hayle and Launceston in protest at the price of fuel... (On the M4: A German firm that has used cheap drivers from Bulgaria)Labels: foreign trucks
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