Tax breaks for haulage professionals 'are desperately needed'
Date: 14 December 2007
In recent weeks, freight haulage professionals and other logistics companies have complained that bulk diesel prices have increased by 23 per cent over the last three years. Continued price rises have hit the profitability of haulage companies significantly.
Luke Humble, website manager for The Transport Exchange Group, said that he understood "the need to raise domestic fuel prices" as a tax on car owners could force them to consider public transport.
However, he added: "The trouble is that hauliers have no choice. It's their job - you can't expect an owner operator to take his freight on the bus!
"If the haulage companies and owner operators went on strike (or were possibly driven out of business) everyone would suffer."
Mr Humble called on the government to introduce tax breaks for haulage companies and other owner operators.
However, he added that his organisation felt that the blockades planned over the weekend by Transaction-2007 (http://www.transaction-2007.com/) would not help haulage companies in the long run.
"Currently, the Road Haulage Association is (rightly) advising its members that blockades will achieve nothing and be unlawful, but that's what desperation prompts in people – desperate measures," Mr Humble concluded.
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