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Author: | pcernie [ Sun Sep 16, 2012 9:18 pm ] |
Post subject: | New charge for foreign lorries using British roads |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19614862 Thin end of the wedge as suggested? ![]() |
Author: | ProfessorF [ Sun Sep 16, 2012 9:26 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: New charge for foreign lorries using British roads |
Nice sentiment, fumbled in the implementation. |
Author: | Linux_User [ Sun Sep 16, 2012 10:49 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: New charge for foreign lorries using British roads |
Whilst I can understand the frustration I think protectionism is the wrong route to go down. |
Author: | l3v1ck [ Mon Sep 17, 2012 7:05 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: New charge for foreign lorries using British roads |
I'm not sure you could call it protectionism given that UK lorries wil pay too. But I agree there is a need to balance things. Foreign lorries do have an advantage at the moment. |
Author: | paulzolo [ Mon Sep 17, 2012 7:39 am ] |
Post subject: | New charge for foreign lorries using British roads |
I wonder if UK haulage firms that registered their fleets abroad will start to bring them back to this country. |
Author: | jonbwfc [ Mon Sep 17, 2012 9:09 am ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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Possibly. The protectionism such as it is is probably not in charging foreign hauliers to drive their vehicles in Britain, it's in giving a tax break to British haulage companies. However I don't know if that actually counts as protectionism in the international law sense of the term.
Agreed, charging some sort of 'road usage fee' is a reasonable thing to do. Ideally it would be based on how many miles they are going to do, but I suspect a flat fee is much easier to administer. Jon |
Author: | Spreadie [ Mon Sep 17, 2012 9:11 am ] | |||||||||
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Why is it protectionism when we are, pretty much, levelling the playing field? |
Author: | JohnSheridan [ Mon Sep 17, 2012 12:31 pm ] |
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What I don't understand is why it does not come into force until 2015 ![]() Why can't it be Jan 1st 2013 ? |
Author: | Linux_User [ Tue Sep 18, 2012 12:22 am ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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We're artificially raising the cost for foreign lorries using British roads, that's a barrier to trade right there. By increasing the costs for foreign competitors (in a similar manner to import tariffs, for example), the British government is making British firms more competitive - ergo protectionism. |
Author: | Amnesia10 [ Tue Sep 18, 2012 12:31 am ] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Plus they are probably paying road fuel duty as well. |
Author: | belchingmatt [ Tue Sep 18, 2012 12:48 am ] |
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Forgot you were a member here Amnesia? Welcome back. |
Author: | Amnesia10 [ Tue Sep 18, 2012 1:09 am ] | |||||||||
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Yes. With most things for me it is a case of out of sight out of mind. So once the notifications stopped there were no reminders for me. It was only when I was looking into signing up to Quidco that I remembered that ernie was a member and that if I got a referral from him that he could possibly earn from my joining up. So I contacted him. Memories are made up of bizarre linkages. |
Author: | l3v1ck [ Tue Sep 18, 2012 6:46 am ] | |||||||||
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What's the range of a lorry on a full tank of fuel anyway? |
Author: | Amnesia10 [ Tue Sep 18, 2012 6:55 am ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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It would be several hundred miles but they might still need a small top up, even just to get it back to the port. Nothing more expensive than a lorry out of commission because it ran out of fuel. |
Author: | bobbdobbs [ Tue Sep 18, 2012 8:21 am ] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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yeah your back ![]() |
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