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Foreign trucks will cost f3bn by 2020
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=oreign trucs are costing the UK millions of pounds every year, according to a new report. Chris Tindall and David Harris report.
'OREIGN TRUCKS ARE darn.ging UK roads to the tune of 200m a year and they will rob he UK of f3bn in lost revenue by .020, says a new report.
And if the one billion kilometres hat foreign trucks travel on our oads were carried out using UK uel, the duty would raise £250m a 'ear towards their road costs.
The research by the Freight Transport and Road Haulage ssociations forms part of the evilence to the Bums Inquiry,whichis nvestigating the impact of high :.vels of fuel duty and foreign comretition on UK transport.
The trade associations hope the eport, Costs Imposed by Foreign?egistered Trucks on Britain's Roads, will reinforce their argument that the government should charge the 10,000 foreign vehicles using UK roads every day. Plans to introduce a Lorry Road User Charge were abandonedin July-so foreign operators will pay nothing to the Treasury until at least 2015.
FTA chief executive Richard Turner says: "Lorries more than pay for the road wear they cause via UK fuel and vehicle duties; in 2005 they will collectively pay over E4bn. For the largest lorry typical of those foreign lorries coming to the UK, a UK operator pays £25,000 a year to the TreasuryForeign vehicles make zero contributions."
• Statistics compiled by the Department for Transport (DfT) to establish how many foreign trucks are involved in accidents on UK roads will not be available until next June.
At the beginning of this year the MT asked police forces to start recording if trucks involved in accidents were registered abroad. This was in response to suggestions that the blind spot in lefthookers can cause problems.
A DfT spokesman admits these figures are unlikely to be collated before the middle of next year.
Geoff Dossetter, FTA external affairs director, says: "It is becoming ever more important that we track the operations of foreign vehicles because anecdotal evidence does suggest that there is a bit of a problem. It's a shame that these figures will not be available more quickly.
Until now police have recorded accidents involving HGVs,but not where the trucks came from.