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CUSTOMS AND Excise insists the Lorry Road User Charge (LRUC) will be launched on schedule in 2006, despite admitting that it has not yet calculated how to charge truck operators or what technology should be used. The admission came as it was revealed that German toll operator Toll Collect has been sacked after it failed to install an effective system on the country's autobahns (see panel).

Speaking at the Freight Transport Association's annual freight summit in London last week, Linda Swinburne, for Customs, said the Treasury is still looking at various models, though it currently favours technology used in the failed German system.

Fears were also raised over how the scheme will remain revenue neutral. Professor Phil Goodwin from University College, London, says the government figures are wrong. "You can't have both revenue neutrality and transparency on revenue spending.You can have one or the other,not both.You can't spend the same money twice!"

But Minister for Transport. Kim Howells, says: -There is no way British hauliers are going to be jeopardised by this."


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