"NM" wrote in message
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Brimstone wrote:
"NM" wrote in message
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allan tracy wrote:
... maybe a complete highway network provided at a cost way beyond
anything HGV taxes run to has something to do with it.
Utter bollox. I await the day all the road generated taxes are
actually
spent on the road network, if this ever occured we would have a system
second to none, instead the surplus is frittered away on bottomless
pits
like the national trainset.

Ahh... naughty naughty do I detect a little sleight of hand here like
including all road generated taxes when we're only discussing HGV
generated taxes.

I own a car and nowhere does it explain that my petrol duty or road
fund licence is to be set at a level that can then provide spending on
accommodating HGVs.

at 8 mpg and heavy ved there is no subsidy, if anything it's the other
way around.

Evidence?

Please don't simply state the anount of VED a lorry pays, it was reduced
a few years ago you may recall.
Back of a fag packet calculations show annual tax take from HGV's about 10
billion pounds (VED + Fuel tax) expenditure on UK road system is ???

When your working it out (not forgetting the cash spent by local authorities
on loal roads some of which comes from Counil Tax), don't forget all the
associated costs will you?