Stop complaining, and back the FairFuelUK campaign instead
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RECORD FUEL prices over the past couple of months are taking their toll on increasing numbers of UK operators’ bottom lines. How far off is it, before you have to tell your workforce that their jobs have gone?
When will it be the last time you close your gates forever, because you can’t pay the bills? How many of you are reliant on the banks for financial assistance? And how many of you have them breathing down your neck each month, just to meet their repayments? A very high proportion, I bet! Life in the industry won’t improve while diesel prices are allowed to go unchallenged.
That’s why it’s time for everyone to back the FairFuelUK campaign. It is making our industry work better by getting fuel duty rates down or stabilised – they achieved last year’s freeze on duty. Peter Carroll (pictured) and his team have done what no other group of people have ever done, and that is to bring together individuals and groups of people with clout. These are people who operate in and around the periphery of the industry to work together to get its message into Parliament.
Our industry is being destroyed because of excessive fuel duty rates imposed on UK operators, making it almost impossible for them to show a profit for their efforts.
Support the FairFuelUK campaign, and do something to help yourself.
Mike Presneill Presneill Tipper Contractors