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Feb 9, 2011

TAX POLICIES * UK - RHA welcomes closer look at charging foreign trucks

London,EN,UK -HGV UK -February 2, 2011: -- The Road Haulage Association (RHA) has welcomed the Government’s determination to introduce a charge on foreign trucks entering the UK...  The RHA has long stated that a Euro-Vignette scheme would be better than nothing at all provided that there is no significant adverse impact on professional UK hauliers...  The Association has offered to engage with the Department for Transport in further detail in order to assist it in its efforts to meet the April 2014 deadline for introducing the scheme set by Ministers... (Picture by Andrew Shaw, from The Telegraph -UK-: The congested M25 has the highest incidence of accidents involving foreign-registered trucks)

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Mar 24, 2010

Road Charging Systems * Belgium - Eurovignette back on agenda

Brussels,Belgium -HGV (UK) -March 24, 2010: -- The Belgian government has confirmed it will put the Eurovignette back on the agenda, when it assumes the presidency of the EU in July... The news means that new rules on charging lorries for use of Europe’s roads could be agreed by the end of the year... Addressing Belgium’s Senate earlier this month, the country’s mobility minister, Etienne Schouppe, said Belgium was aiming for agreement on the Eurovignette by the end of its term, so that member states can put in place road charging systems that incorporate the external costs of road freight transport. Under the current Eurovignette directive on charging rules for road freight(agreed in 2006), Member States can only charge for infrastructure costs. Member States are currently banned from charging lorries for environmental damage, accident costs, and congestion costs, although there is a directive which would allow these costs to be internalised for the railways... (Picture: Traffic England)

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Apr 28, 2009

Higher charges * Australia - will push industry 'over the edge'

“It is going to push people over the edge,” Williams says


Sydney,Australia -ATN, by Brad Gardner -28 April 2009: -- The Rudd Government is being urged to abandon plans to increase heavy vehicle charges or risk sending already struggling trucking operators to breaking point... The Transport Workers’ Union (TWU) has slammed the proposed 3.2 percent increase in registration fees and the road user charge from July 1 this year... Hughie Williams from the TWU’s Queensland branch claims the charges will have serious ramifications on the industry, which is struggling under the weight of the global financial crisis... B-double operators will be hit with an almost $3,000 increase in registration fees, while a 0.7 percent increase in the road user charge will reduce the fuel tax credit to 16.4 cents... Williams has questioned the reason for the increase, saying governments may be overcharging the industry... The Australian Trucking Association (ATA) has backed the 3.2 percent in registration fees, with ATA Chairman, Trevor Martyn, saying it is justified because governments are investing more funds in the road network... The ATA, however, has so far remained silent on whether it supports the increase in the road user charge... ATA Chief Executive, Stuart St Clair, says the peak lobby group has not yet looked at the reasoning for the proposed increase and will make its position known once it determines if the 0.7 cent increase is necessary.. (Video from YouTube, from eads90 - 29 de noviembre de 2006: "Trucks in Aus": Just some of the trucks in outback Australia)

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Mar 19, 2008

Truck Charges * Australia - To hit hard

Sydney,New South Wales,Australia -AAP/The Sydney Morning Herald -March 19, 2009: -- ... A hike in truckies' fees will hit shoppers at the checkout, the Nationals have warned... But Labor says increased charges for the trucking industry will not translate into significantly higher grocery bills... The hike is part of a raft of measures including an increase in the road user charge... Essentially a fuel tax for trucks and buses, it rises from 19.63 cents-a-litre to 21 cents per litre, which would be indexed at a rate higher than the consumer price index annually, and come into effect from January 1 next year... The government argues the higher charges are justified because the trucking industry is not shouldering enough of the cost of providing road infrastructure...

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