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Tories promise to introduce LRUC on major routes only
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The Conservative Party will resurrect the Lorry Road User Charge, but with no word of an essential user rebate. Brian Weatherley reports.
THE MAJOR trade associations have given a guarded response to the news that a Conservative government would resurrect the Lorry Road User Charge (LRUC) as a way of making foreign operators pay for using British roads. The LRUC scheme was dumped by Labour in 2005.
Speaking to members of the Road Haulage Association ;RFIA) at Westminster last week. Shadow Transport Secretary Theresa Villiers promised that a Tory government would take ;teps to ensure that foreign opera:ors using UK roads "pay tax to he Chancellor of the Exchequer".
However, she stopped short of Jaying how an `LRUC night work in terms of UK operaors receiving a commensurate 'eduction in fuel duty or VED, Omitting: "There's still a lot of letail that needs to be discussed." Freight Transport Association lirector Geoff Dossetter says: 'We'd look at it again.The reason ve held on to it in the first place vas that it provided a way to harge foreign trucks while on the Ether hand separating any charge or LGVs from cars — which is the lig issue with road charging."
RHA chief executive Roger :ing reports that the Tories have inly been considering the intro[uction of an LRUC on major run k routes and motorways. He warns: "It has to be everything or nothing, on all roads, if it's going to work —then you can have a sensible rebate system.
"A VET) reduction wouldn't be anything like enough," he adds. However. King concludes that an essential user rebate on diesel purchased, rather than an LRUC, "is far more attractive." But he says: "We'd be content to establish the principle and build up the rebate over successive years." • At the same meeting with the RNA, Shadow Maritime and Shipping Minister Earl Attlee blasted the lack of secure overnight facilities for truck drivers, as well as the low number of female LGV drivers on UK roads.
He also called for greater investment in a bid to improve the current road links running to and from UK ports.