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Dec 5, 2015

TRUCKMAKERS´ CARTEL * Europe: Could face fines of up to 10 percent of their annual revenue if found guilty

* Belgium -  EU truck manufacturers accused as cartel, Daimler, Volvo, Iveco, Volkswagen-controlled: Scania, MAN and DAF


-- Trucks in the European Union are no more fuel efficient than they were more than a decade ago, according to a report released on Thursday, as calls increase for emissions from heavy duty vehicles to be regulated in the same way as cars... The study by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) found that the fuel efficiency of heavy duty vehicles, which are responsible for one third of CO2 emissions in the EU but only a small fraction of vehicles on the road, had remained unchanged since the early 2000s... The report comes as EU antitrust regulators are investigating some of Europe's biggest truck makers for price fixing and coordinating the introduction of new emissions technologies, according to a copy of the statement of objections seen by Reuters... The truck manufacturers accused of operating a cartel, Daimler, Volvo, Iveco, Volkswagen-controlled Scania, MAN and DAF, could face fines of up to 10 percent of their annual revenue if found guilty... The study by the ICCT, the same group that uncovered German carmaker Volkswagen's manipulation of diesel nitrogen oxide emission tests, found that the share of CO2 emissions from trucks was growing in the EU... In contrast, the United States in June proposed tighter standards on truck emissions which the researches estimated could lead to a 33 percent reduction of fuel consumption rates from 2010 levels... Industry group the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA) said fuel consumption per tonne-kilometre of today's trucks had been reduced by at least 60 percent since 1965... Said William Todts, freight manager at campaign group Transport & Environment, "The reality is that for the last decade they've made virtually no progress in fuel efficiency while for much of that time they are alleged to have operated a cartel. It's high time we shift gears and introduce U.S.-style fuel economy standards"...
(Photo from REUTERS, by Luke MacGregor: Traffic queues on the M20 motorway and the slip road leading to the Channel Tunnel Terminal, near Folkestone in Kent, southern England December 19, 2009) -- Brussels, Belgium - Reuters, by JULIA FIORETTI/Greg Mahlich/Mark Potter - Dec 3, 2015

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