1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136 
Tax changes cost road transport extra £140m.
Page 43
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
ALTHOUGH recent discussions with Lord Brown, Minister of State at the Board of Trade, had not given any hope that a change in the decision regarding investment incentives for the road transport industry would be achieved, the TRTA would continue to press the overall case for a reduction in taxation.
This was said by Mr. K. C. Turner, president of the Association, speaking at the annual generatmeeting of the Scottish Division last week. Successive decisions regarding fuel tax, annual road fund tax, corporation tax and the removal of investment allowances on road vehicles had burdened road transport with an impost of some £140m.
It was a matter of first priority that the facts of life regarding transport were made abundantly clear to those who took the policy decisions, said Mr. Turner, and the Association was at present immersed with the London Co-ordination Council and the Regional Economic Planning Councils in their consideration of transport co-ordination and integration. The consultations the Scottish Division was having with the Economic Planning Council should give it a valuable opportunity to help shape a realistic highway structure in Scotland.
The work which the Association had put into the Geddes Committee had not died with the publication and shelving of the Committee's report. The Committee's clean bill of health for the C licensee, its liberal transport approach and its warning of the dangers of restriction should not be written off.
Mr. Turner said he hoped to see the Association's maintenance inspection scheme, about to be launched in the London area, extended to other parts of the country as quickly as possible. This new member service was one which had the maximum appeal for the smaller member with no fleet engineer or inspector. Also on the maintenance side the Association had recently launched a series of meetings with individual manufacturers to discuss vehicle design and defects.