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Running costs of 32-tonners
ONCE AGAIN SMMT press and public relations manager John Weinthal and his colleagues have rendered great service to commercial-vehicle operators as well as manufacturers. They have used the occasion of the Motor Show to issue to the Press a splendidly varied portfolio of well-written, informative and sometimes entertaining articles, of which about half-a-dozen deal with goods transport.
Mind you, I think the transport man to whom "the whiff of diesel is as the fragrance of attar" should see the doctor about his adenoids; otherwise it is impressive, well-researched stuff.
How many layman know that a typical 32-ton-gross outfit costs 05,000 a year to operate, of which more than £8,000 goes to the Government before even a penny of corporation tax is paid? Such lorries represent less than half of one per cent of the vehicles on the road yet they contribute about seven and a half per cent of the fuel duty and more than ten per cent of the annual licence revenue.
Another strong point is that although the total number of goods vehicles in the UK has barely changed in ten years, they are now carrying a fifth more goods than they did a dezade ago. This is real productivity, which could be improved 3till further if 44-tonne-gross lor'les were allowed.