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Fuel. Fuel. Fuel...
We live on it. It runs in our arteries. It is our lifeline. Why then can it not be seen what the price of fuel is doing to us? Or do YOU see and simply choose to ignore it?
Our jobs may be irrelevant to you, hut to us, we rely, on the income supplied to maintain our life, to pay weekly amounts to the numerous suppliers, to the numerous drivers, and to the tax man.
We like to be able to pay our way—in this day and age we could so easily sit back and take it all back from the state, that so easily takes it away
Sometimes we want to lobby, but it's not always easy as our duty remains to sustain the income and to continue the circle of payment—trapped in a neverending downward spiral.
We all make excuses for our lethargy. But remember, we all have 25-hour-a-day
jobs in this industry, and how tired we all feel of the injustice we receive, so sometimes we have little left to fight with.
As born and bred British people trying to earn a living to give some income to the community in which we live, why are we given time after
time the same reply to our question of taxation of fuel...that fuel should be taxed to the death?
Our industry will not be the last, as we all intertwine. The knock-on effect will be certain to add to the general decline of the economy.
"Save our Souls" should be
heard from every rooftop— we need a lifeline NOW From a small haulier.