Car Hauling in Europe Still Tough Business

Car haulers in the United Kingdom will be interested in the recent calls by the Freight Transport Association (FTA) for the government of the United Kingdom to lower fuel and excise duties in order to help car transport firms deal with plans to introduce a Lorry Road User Charging scheme in the United Kingdom. The government has proposed a charge that would be levied toward all car transportation services in the United Kingdom. The FTA however is concerned that the implementation of this idea isn’t going to be equal for foreign and truckers in the United Kingdom, and the agency thinks it might be necessary to reimburse truckers in the United Kingdom with lower fuel duty or vehicle excise fees.

According to some firms foreign truckers already have a cost advantage because they can fill up with cheaper fuel bought outside the United Kingdom, so they hope that the implementation of this Lorry Road User Charging scheme is going to help even the playing field for foreign truckers and truckers based in the United Kingdom in the future. They also hope that some of the revenue generated with this idea could be used to help improve the transport roads of the United Kingdom. This would help alleviate problems with traffic congestion on the roads of the United Kingdom in the years ahead and Mother Nature, residents and commuters in the United Kingdom will all benefit significantly. All of this has yet to be determined though, but it sounds feasible to think all of this is possible, unfortunately competing interests could keep all of this from becoming reality. Hopefully, all of this comes to be in the years ahead for the United Kingdom as it travels further into the century of the environment, and we see Europe’s car haulers do a little better.