We're not wasters say removers
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THE BRITISH Association of Removers has joined the transport debate with a warning to Environment Secretary Mr Anthony Crosland about the future of road haulage in the face of Increasing taxation.
Association general secretary Mr Hugh Wilson told Mr Crosland in a letter: "We are concerned about suggestions that even more discriminatory taxation should be heaped on the backs of road freight operators—particularly in order to protect the railways."
He hits out at the suggestion that hauliers are using valuable energy that should be directed elsewhere: "Commercial vehicles consume no more than 10 per cent of the fuel supplies. If this is being wasted or is a strain on our balance of payments why not get at people using energy for central heating or making plastic buckets and polythene bags.
"How furniture removers can be thought to be endangering •the railways is hard to understand," says Mr Wilson. "No one in their right minds expects removals to go by rail —nor do the railways want our traffic. Why not recognise that for most purposes the railways are as out of date in 1976 as the stage coach was in 1876."