Hidden costs of LRUC
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The introduction of the Lorry Road User Charge (LRUC) should be delayed until it applies to all categories of road traffic and the rest of the EU introduces a common standard, according to a leading transport academic.
Professor Alan McKinnon, director of the Logistics Research Centre at Heriot-Watt University, has already suggested that the LRUC would cost five times more to run than it would generate in extra revenue from foreign hauliers (CM25 March).
He says that charging hauliers 15p/km would raise £139m a year for the Treasury. But the system of charging which the government plans to introduce would involve an elaborate enforcement network for penalising non-compliance. McKinnon warns this would cost several times the likely income.