FTA tilts at the Government
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IT WILL be up to the transport industry to persuade the Government to adopt downlicensing, Freight Transport Association operations controller David Green said this week.
He was commenting on the track cost consultation document and warned that if downlicensing was rejected in this review, it would be many years before the Government was. likely to look again at the possibility.
In general, both he and FTA planning and traffic services controller Richard Turner saic they were pleased that the DTi had taken account of so many o their representations on the dut) system, although Mr Turner wa: unhappy about the inclusion o accident costs which are born: by the taxpayer anyway.
But he doubted whether thr FTA would fight this hard in thr coming weeks.
For the Road Haulage Associa tion, director-general Freddil Plaskett said a cursory glance a the consultation document ap peared to bear out the RHA' view that the heaviest vehicle bear too great a burden of trac costs.
He said that the matter wa being examined in greater deta by a working party chaired b national vice-chairman Bet Neely, and hoped that ther would be room for detaile discussion of actual figures onc the RHA meets DTp officials.