Fee inequality
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We read in your article on the proposed change in charges for continuous 0licences that large fleets benefit at the expense of four or fewer vehicles
I, like many others in the transport industry, believed that these changes were designed to reduce the administrative cost of the issue and maintenance of 0licences by the Traffic Area Offices.
Yet again it is the small man who takes the brunt of these legislative changes.
For at least the past decade we have been fed on glib rhetoric by the Tory Government that small businesses are the lifeblood of the nation—and that must certainly be true in our industry.
So why is it that changes purporting to benefit those affected hit hardest the people who are least able to protect themselves, or bear the cost of these so-called beneficial changes?
In Comment Brian Weatherley asks "Weren't all men created equal?"
While the answer to that question should most certainly be yes—it should be added that some are more equal than others. Mick Binns, General secretary, National Owner Drivers Association UK, Northampton,