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There are a lot of unrest lately from forwarding Exchange members about the rising fuel prices in Germany have been, and I can not say I blame them!
increased over the past three years bulk diesel prices have shot up 23% and 50% since 1999. Domestic fuel prices have increased their prices on a weekly basis for more than two months, really squeezing carriers profitability.
I understand the need to increase fuel oil prices – I really do. Extra taxes that are spent on basic public services undoubtedly a good thing, as the added bonus that people use the car tax will encourage the use of public transport to reduce our emissions. I do not quibble with the principle. The problem is that tractors have no other choice. It is their job – one can not expect an owner operator to take his cargo on the bus! The expectation from the government seems to be that the carriers will benefit from the fuel, and should therefore be the same as everyone else, but it does not work so easily! If the shipping and holder on strike Manager (or may have been driven out of business) may suffer if all – there was no urgent deliveries would be competition to reduce the significance of the cost of the delivery would increase, and perhaps worst of all for the government there would be far less people to the horrendous petrol to buy in the first place!
What we need are tax breaks for haulage companies and owner operators – we are not commuters, we have no choice and we have come from a struggle to make ends meet when the UK falling fuel prices for us do not. And if so to make ends meet, they are looking for something else more profitable – the government seems to be in front of a British transportation crisis, but not in the least seem to be fazed. We had hoped that Alistair Darling would be much more understanding for the truck drivers cause “, which move with him previously as secretary of transportation, but it does not seem to him about this sensitive topic.
As a result, it is no wonder that we hear talk of road blockades and distinctive remembers September 2000. Currently, the road haulage association law is (rightly) the advice of its members, the blockades will not achieve anything and are illegal, but that’s what people calling in desperation – desperate measures. Something has to be done urgently to the domestic fuel prices, and time will tell whether the government will defuse this time bomb before it starts.
As a member of a freight exchange like ours is a good start – if you drove down dead on cut, then you have to spend more profits on fuel, but it’s a small consolation. We need tax breaks for haulage companies and owner operators in the industry begins to feel an even greater squeeze. And despite the road transport associations assure that striking and roadblocks go the wrong way, things are progressing, the longer the truck drivers are unhappy, the more likely such desperate measures to go ahead – with or without RHA backing.