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Experts steel Germany for Toll Coiled chaos
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GERMANY'S ROAD transport association, BGL. has become the latest body to warn that the country's proposals to introduce a truck toll system in 2005 will end in chaos.
Only last month Germany's Transport Minister said he was worried that too few on-board units have been fitted to trucks for the scheme to run smoothly. Now the BGL has called for the introduction of the scheme to be further delayed in order to avoid massive traffic jams and damage to business.
BGL president Hermann Grewer has echoed the Transport Minister's fear that the fitting of onboard units will not be done in time; he wants the launch to be delayed "fora long time".
The consortium organising the toll, Toll Collect, admits that the number of on-board units being fitted had not reached the 30,000-aweek target but it is still working towards a 1 January 2005 start date. The consortium expects units to continue to be fitted after 1 January. It says it can supply and fit a maximum of 100,000 a month.
About a third of the vehicles equipped with units so far have been non-German. However. UKbased international operators will be forced to have them fitted on the Continent as Toll Collect has not appointed a UK agent.
The Road Haulage Association has complained about this on the grounds that it is discriminatory