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Councillor calls for bridge boycott
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HAULIERS ARE being asked to boycott the Severn Bridges later this year as part of a campaign to scrap tolls.
The idea is the brainchild of Neath councillor John Warman who says the £13.90 charge for trucks is a strong disincentive for business to move into Wales.
"I'd like to make the boycott a firm date once a year to draw attention to how much it is costing business, hauliers and motorists," Hicks Logistics. which has 45 trucks and is one of the closest Welsh hauliers to the bridges.spends around £3,000 a month on tolls.
Managing director Terry Hicks says: "Well over 50% of our work has to go over the bridge. Our vehicles might go across three or four times a day."
Warman is planning to start a campaign wcbsite and has begun leafleting truck drivers at motorway service areas about its aims.
He has also contacted other toll protest groups around the country to try to co-ordinate a UK-wide toll boycott on the same day.
Severn River Crossing, which operates the bridges, can levy tolls until 2026, but the cut-off date will be sooner if revenues meet the cost of financing the second bridge, opened eight years ago.