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Cabotage or Sabotage?

Cabotage Proposal: 'The final nail in the coffin'

For as long as there has been newspapers, we have been programmed to expect important news to make headlines or at the very least, the front page. Why then is one of the most crucial issues to affect the British haulage industry tucked in an insignificant corner of page three in Motor Transport (31st January) as if it were nothing more than an afterthought?

Yes, I am referring to the tiny article headed 'Cabotage Review'. I quote " The European Parliament's transport committee has backed a proposed European Union regulation that would, by January 2014, remove all cabotage restrictions preventing EU hauliers working in any member state".

http://www.transaction-2007.com/

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nigel_bytes

i read that article. by my understanding this means (in laymans terms) that the uk will be full of foreign trucks running around free to do any work they like for as long as they like. effectively ending the british trucking industry. we cant compete with them. they pay far lower fuel than we do and that makes a huge difference. ok, some hauliers would be able to hop across the channel to fill up and most wouldnt. retail deliveries for example have much smaller fuel tanks so they would have no benefit in filling up and france and coming back over. most wouldnt make the journey on a tank anyway!
everyone on this site is well aware of the threat on our roads caused to foreign trucks. we have all read about how they can kill someone due to bad driving and they get a fine and sent home. we need to stop this one going through or the death toll on our roads will rocket! plus of course a lot of people will be out of work whether company owner, driver or warehouseman etc. smaller hauliers are struggling to cope now with a profit margin of around 2%. the british haulage industry wouldnt survive if the restrictions were lifted. it should be the opposite!

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Richie

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I am in complete agreement with you Scanny

but..

The government coerced media will spout how prices will be cheaper for Joe Public because these foreign hauliers can run at a lower rate than us.

Divide & Conquer

Again.

UKIP gets my vote.

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The Box said "Windows XP or better" ... So I installed Ubuntu

I was in France in March and fuel didn't look much, if any cheaper there than it is here. Foreign haulage firms arn't going to take business from domestic ones in any great number, it would be too impracticle to have to run back home every time you wanted fuel. Eurostar and the ferry companies would like it though. What about the practilities of having drivers that are away from home all week in vast numbers? Lorry drivers are thin on the ground when they get to go home most nights and live down the road from the yard, they're not exactly going to be flocking to sign up are they?

UK firms also do foreign work don't they?

We are all in the same boat with pricey fuel, whether private or commercial. All the haulage companies have to do is keep passing on the price increases and the message might just penatrate Browns thick skull.

http://www.roadtransport.com/Articles/2 ... share.html

26% of channel crossings are our wagons!

our wagons can be fitted with 1700 litre tanks. i have driven one mercedes actros 1846 with 2 large tanks fitted. 2 axles on a 3 axle chassis leaves plenty of room for big tanks as apposed to the 300 litre shop delivery motors that i am normally driving and they will get from central scotland to manchester and back with a bit to spare
euro trailers are sometimes fitted with belly tanks which obviously vastly increases their fuel carrying capabilities.

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Richie

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lol

When I worked for Murfitts their trucks were practically fuel tankers.

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The Box said "Windows XP or better" ... So I installed Ubuntu