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SO WHAT DO YOU WANT GORDON TO DO?
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• "We are continually faced with foreign competition. We will never compete on fuel terms until something is done about it. As far as we are concerned, we don't mind competing with anyone on a level playingfield, but this needs to be addressed. It makes you want to cry."
Robert Williams, company secretary for Uanelli-based Owens Road Services.
• "Fuel is the main thing for us. I can't believe they will increase it, but we need some assistance to bring it down a bit' Martin Wiles of Peterboroughbased haulier BC Wks.
• "We have appreciated the reductions in VED, and the freezing of fuel duty in recent Budgets. But the haulage industry is still heavily taxed. The latest NI will add to that burden while cutting the take-home pay of our hard-working staff. Our fleet of about 40 units pays about Lim in tax."
John Fuller, commercial director of Norfolk-based Spandler Bros.
• 0n improving the industry's image: "There's no incentive to come into the industry. Yet I think the one area of most value in this country is road transport." Ray Dickson, managing director of Croydon haulier F Dickson Transport.
• "Hearing that Brown has set aside another E1.25bn for the war effort, one wonders if that has not already been paid for by the increase in fuel duty. Is it not time for the duty to be set instead of as a percentage?"
Jonathan Fenwick of Grimsbybased Fenwick Bros.
• "There should be a rebate on fuel, but only for registered and taxed commercial vehicles. It could be administered per vehicle and, even if they charged .E100 a year and rebated accordingly. I wouldn't mind paying it."
Dave Taylor of Oxfordshire haulier Ad Construction and Haulage.