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Fuel card news: Fuel duty 'killing UK haulage firms'

03 September, 10
British transport companies are struggling to cope with rising fuel duty and many firms will bite the dust unless the government takes action to ease the burden, it has been claimed.

Responding to new statistics from the Department for Transport (DfT) - which showed HGV activity fell by 13 per cent in 2009 - a spokesman for insurance provider Staveley suggested foreign drivers pay far less for diesel than their UK rivals.

"Perhaps the Government may now like to compare the levels of diesel prices, road taxes and other petty DfT levies applied in this country," he said. "The British road haulage operator is being slowly strangled to death."

The representative also expressed concern about the recent drop in cross-channel trade and claimed that the vast majority of Britain's haulage business have been adversely affected by recent developments in the sector.

In his emergency Budget in June, chancellor George Osborne announced plans to press on with fuel duty increases in October and January, with a VAT hike also planned for the new year.

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Fuel card news: Fuel duty 'killing UK haulage firms'