London,UK -HGV UK -October 5, 2010: -- A new report shows that Britain is lagging behind other European countries in developing a charging system for lorries that would end unfair competition from foreign hauliers... The report, commissioned by Campaign for Better Transport, sets out how a lorry road user charging system could end the unfair advantage that non-UK hauliers have. Foreign hauliers do not contribute towards their use of UK roads, pay no UK fuel tax when they fill up abroad and are more likely to be involved in collisions... The UK is increasingly out of step by failing to implement a lorry user road charging scheme, despite research showing significant growth in the presence of foreign vehicles in the UK. Most other European countries have, or are in the process setting up, some form of lorry charging, which makes all hauliers from any country pay for their road use... The coalition Government has committed to work towards the introduction of a new system of HGV road user charging to ensure a fairer arrangement for UK hauliers... It recommends a distance charge varied by size/weight of lorry... (Photo from international.kent.gov.uk: Foreign lorries on UK roads)
* Penning promises not to add to industry taxes
London,UK -Road Transport, by Justin Stanton -5 October 2010: -- The government already looks to have torpedoed the proposals released by the Campaign for Better Transport (CBT) for a 15p/mile Lorry Road User Charge which it revealed yesterday as a means of levelling the playing field against cheap foreign trucks... Speaking at the Freight Transport Association's (FTA's) Transport Hub at the Conservative Party Conference last night (4 October) transport minister Mike Penning said that he was looking at a simple charge which may target tractor units only, as operators of those vehicles are most at risk from competition from cheaper foreign operators... Penning said: "The CBT study had suggested a distance-based charge of up to 15p/mile with hauliers compensated through funding to modernise fleets and train drivers"... However, the RHA has criticised the CBT report. It says: "It is hard to see how this proposed scheme would do little more than pile cost and administrative complexity on the industry"... (Photo from news.bbc.co.uk: Figures show an increase of foreign owned lorries on the UK's roads)Labels: fees and taxes
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