* New Zealand - Crackdown on shopping trucks wanted by minister
-- Social Development Minister Anne Tolley has hatched a plan to "curb the negative effects" of mobile truck shops in communities, and it doesn't involve her Cabinet colleagues passing new laws... Tolley, the MP for the East Coast, is lobbying councils to use their powers to close mobile shopping trucks, some of which have been accused of taking advantage of the poor... Mobile trucks have been criticised for selling goods at prices that are in many cases far higher than the supermarkets and shops. Customers are able to get the goods before paying the mobile shopping truck owner by instalment... Consumer said some mobile truck companies, of which there were about 40, were "targeting some of the most vulnerable consumers". It said an item like a jersey could end up costing $180 and a packet of cornflakes could cost $30 if purchased from rogue operators... Tolley appeared to have similar concerns... She said she had met with and written to the mayors and councils in the Opotiki, Kawerau and Whakatane districts, and believed there was an opportunity "to work together to exclude mobile trucks from preying on our communities"...
(Photo: A mobile shopping truck, shipping container cafe, in Auckland) -- Auckland, NZ - Stuff, by ROB STOCK - Apr 16, 2015Labels: mobile trucks' service, shopping trucks
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Robert Gillam, said "Thanks for sharing truck companies information...Trucking companies, Auckland, are plucking retired drivers from rest homes to help fill a chronic shortage of people to get behind the wheel"
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