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Oct 19, 2010

FEES POLICY * WORLDWIDE

* Australia - Truck charges a blueprint for wholesale reform. The AAA wants the industry and motorists billed based on their road use

Canberra,Australia -Supply Chain, by By Brad Gardner -October 18, 2010: -- Heavy vehicle road pricing reform should act as a blueprint for sweeping changes to existing fees for all motorists, the Australian Automobile Association (AAA) says... The AAA wants governments to use the trucking industry as the starting point for a new system of road charges that abolishes the existing structure of fixed registration fees and fuel excise in favour of a user-pays model... The group is also adamant any reform must include social costs such as crashes, congestion, noise and air pollution and vehicle emissions... If introduced, MDL will charge trucking operators based on the weight of the load, how far a truck travels and the roads it travels on. Vehicles will be monitored by GPS. Similar schemes have been introduced in Europe... The NTC is currently looking at five alternatives to the existing charging process, including MDL...


* Europe - EU seeks 'green tax' for heavy trucks

Brussels,Belgium -UPI -Oct. 16, 2010: -- Transportation ministers in Europe have agreed to allow European Union member states to impose taxes on heavy trucks considered environmental polluters... The agreement allows governments a variety of options for charging higher tolls on trucks, including having operators pay more for traveling during peak driving hours... The new rules fit a "polluter pays" policy that transportation companies have resisted, the EUobserver said... In a compromise, newer trucks were exempted from measure, EU transportation commissioner Siim Kallas said...


* UK - Haulage industry poised for government cuts


London,EN,UK -Road Transport, by Laura Hailstone -20 October 2010: -- The industry is nervously awaiting where the government's axe will fall in the Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR), unveiled today by Chancellor George Osborne...   The Freight Transport Association (FTA) was working right up to the wire, with a pre-CSR meeting with transport minister Mike Penning on Tuesday morning (19 Oct)...    James Hookham, MD of policy and communications at the FTA, says he spent the morning presenting a very wide range of ways the logistics sector can take the lead...   Geoff Dunning, chief executive of the Road Haulage Association, says it comes down to "essential versus optional spending"...

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