Trans-Action calls for more lobbying
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by David Craik • Shropshire Trans-Action member Jim Jordan is urging hauliers up and down the country to lobby their MPs about crippling fuel duty hikes because they are starting not just to listen, but to act.
Jordan, who trades as Jordan's Transport, says his local MP (for Shrewsbury) Paul Marsden, who has been bombarded by letters from Shropshire hauliers urging change, recently met Treasury Minister Dawn Primorolo to discuss the negative effects of duty hikes on rural hauliers.
Jordan says this meeting was so successful that Primorolo has agreed to order research into the effect and, if unfairness is found, to order a policy review.
"This shows lobbying can work," says Jordan. "This is the first real positive response we have received from the Government on this issue. Every haulier in the country should now get in touch, and keep in touch, with his MR" Jordan's message comes as Trans-Action appears to be moving away from a campaign of convoys to Government lobbying following poor attendances at its demos (CM 30 July-5 August).