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RHA meets Treasury to discuss widening fuel prices and 'levelling the playing field'
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JUST HOURS AFTER the Government unveiled its decision to postpone the 2p/lit fuel duty rise, the Road Haulage Association (RHA) met with the Treasury exchequer secretary Angela Eagle.
Speaking to CMafter the meeting, RHA chairman and ABE Ledbury managing director Andy Boyle said that now the fuel duty issue was out of the way, it was time to "concentrate on the main event".
According to Boyle, Eagle admitted there were a couple of areas that could be open for future dialogue. These were foreign trucks operating in the UK for nothing, and the gap between diesel and petrol prices, All other road users get charged in this country through fuel duty, VED and VAT, but foreign operators come in with a full tank of fuel and pay nothing," Boyle explains.
The RHA told Eagle that a Eurovignette would be a start.
The association also raised the difference between diesel and petrol prices, which is widening.
"If we're right, petrol will start falling In price in September, while diesel will continue going up. Although the Treasury claims it has no say in the price at the pumps, we're going to keep revisiting this issue with the Government, because it's diesel that delivers all the goods in this country."
Boyle says: "From now onwards, my message is that just because the 2p has been postponed, it doesn't mean I've caved in and rolled over. Life goes on, and so does the fight."