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Skye firms keep prices high
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The Skye Bridge is now toll-free but hauliers have come under fire for keeping their prices high regardless. Guy Sheppard reports.
HAULIERS DELIVERING to and from Skye are coming under fire for failing to cut their charges since the island's bridge toll was abolished in December.
One Skye garage says it was quoted £70 by TNT to deliver an alternator to its premises in February.This compared with a quote of just £10 to drop it off at Kyle of Lochalsh on the mainland nine miles away.
The tolls were abolished by the Scottish Executive in December, cutting the cost of a single crossing by an artic with four or more axles by 127.90.
Skye councillor Drew Millar raised the issue at last week's meet ing of the Highland Council. It is nonsense for them [hauliers] to say that the price of the toll was incorporated into their costs because the toll was so high." he said afterwards.
"I would have hoped they would have reduced their charges accordingly within two or three days of abolition."
ATNT spokesman says making the necessary adjustments took time due to the company's size. However he adds that these have now been made.
However Murdo Macdonald, director of Hebrides Haulage, with depots in Lewis and Glasgow, says he never increased his charges when the toll was introduced.
"We try not to adjust our costs too much with the price of diesel going up and down," he explains. "Customers prefer price stability"