Tax prompts go-slow
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by Grant Prior • Frustrated Scottish hauliers are planning bridge blockades and a coordinated LGV go-slow, with drivers sticking to lOmph, in protest at recent tax hikes.
The hauliers are forming their own protest group to co-ordinate the action as they shoulder the latest Budget fuel tax increase.
Tom Hamilton Transport managing director Tom Hamilton says the new group is needed because the FTA and RHA are "toothless lions".
Hamilton says he has been inundated with letters of support from across Scotland: a mass meeting of around 50 haulage basses is planned in Fife on 12 January.
Robert Moffat, managing director of James Moffat and Sons says "These taxes are crippling us and the associations aren't doing anything about it."
Hamilton says if they do not receive a satisfactory reply from a letter they have sent to the Prime Minister, a series of protests including bridge blockades and goslows could swing into action. RHA Scottish district manager Tom Brattin says he sympathises with the hauliers' plight, but the RHA will not join in with the action.
• Three Scottish truck drivers who claimed they were paid less than English workers for doing the same job have lost o race relations case.
Fred Glasgow, Davie Hill and Mike Orr were employed by City Link Transport Holdings of Middlesex at the firm's Scottish depot They claimed English drivers were earning E50 a week more for doing the same work.
Their case was being considered by the Commission for Racial Equality's legal committee.
City Link declined to comment on the case.