• The Road Haulage Association is considering direct action following the failure to secure results by negotiation.
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It shelved its protest plans early this summer in the expectation that the Transport Select Committee's findings would support the industry. But now national chairman John Bridge says: "The industry is getting very frustrated and upset and I am coming under increasing pressure from members. We have now got to look at other ways of bringing to the attention of government the seriousness of the situation.
"It is unbelievable that the government still says we have yet to prove our case," he adds. However, chief executive Roger King says that the RHA will be considering something "a little bit more sophisticated than blockades or driving around the M25". He hopes that the roadshow demos launched on 1 August will get hauliers' plight across to the political parties.
King adds that the Treasury gave the RHA "a very fair hearing" over the essential user rebate.