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New Advantages of Trailer Haulage
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How the Budget Proposals Will Encourage the Employment of More Units of this Type
ALTHOUGH it is quite possible that .our legislators do not appreciate the fact they are, in the new Budget, distinctly encouraging the employment of trailers. Admittedly, there is the proposal to increase trailer duty to a con-. siderable. extent----£14 in respect of a vehicle exceeding 4. tons in weight unladen, bringing the total to £20 ; -hitt the additional pay-load which it is permissible to carry on the trailer is transported at a cost per ton much below that for the portion of the pay-load borne by the motive unit. Take the case of a 6-tonner weighing less than 5 tons unladen, with a proposed tax of £70 if running on pneumatic tyres. This represents a tax of £11 1.?,s. 4e1. per ton of pay-load., • Now, in the case of this,vehiele, the extra duty which _will be required to be paid to permit the haulage of a trailer will he £20, and if it be assumed that the trailer will carry a. load of 5 tons, then for the pay-load tonnage on the trailer the taxation cost will amount to only £4 per ton, a saving of £7 las. 4d. per ton, or a total of £:718 6s. 84., which would have to be paid in taxation if this extra load were to be carried on a second vehicle. If, however, the total load of 11 tons were to be carried on a single vehicle weighing, unladen, not more than 8-9 tons, for which the proposed tax is £150 when pneumatics are employed, this means that the extra 5 tons which would have been canried on the trailer, would involve an additional cost in taxation of £80 on the vehicle alone, from which, of course we must deduct the 120 trailer duty .so that the actual increase as compared with the 6-tonner and trailer, would be i60, and the taxation cost per ton for the whole load of 11 tons would be approximately 113 12s.
It inuSt, of course, be remembered that • fi
these gures apply only to the cost of taxation and not to the other operating costs. It naturally adds to the expenses to run a trailer—more fuel and oil are . consumed, the tyres wear out slightly more rapidly and those on the trailer must he considered, whilst maintenance and personal charges are increased ; hut. the difference between. the cos,t per ton is so great that even with these extras to be taken into consideration much still remains in favour of the trailer.