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THE CONSULTATION docume on lorries' track costs h "blown sky high" the "myt that lorries do not pay enou tax, Freight Transport Assoc tion director-general Hu! Featherstone said In Glasge this week.
Giving his final address director-general to the FTA's e nual Scottish dinner, he said was the end result of eight yee of persistent pressure from t FTA to prove that the DTp's (it! mates were too high.
But his delight was temper by realisation that sor operators' potential savings £1,200 a year in vehicle exc duty would be offset by othe loss of £400.
He added, however, a note warning. "Just in case an aye cious Chancellor was thinking increasing any of the tax burch it was worth noting that t Treasury was already 15 years credit and that this would just a total moritorium on all ved the next two years."
Mr Featherstone also a pealed for a rethink of the 0 plan to include public accid( costs and bridge maintenar costs in track cost allocation lorries.
The DTp, meantime, infon us that a gremlin slipped into i information we used to descri the track cost document in C November 5.
It is not now planning to inc porate 0-licence fees in vehi excise duty, so the changes track cost allocations for 1983/ would be a six per cent rise fa 7.5 tonner to £350, a 14 per ci rise for a two-axle 16-tonner £2,310, and a four-axle 30-tom to £5,190.
At the top end, the reductic would knock 18 per cent off costs for 2+2 32.5-tonne artics £5,550, and 17 per cent off thc for a 2+3 38-tonner to £5,800.