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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?
What makes you think I'm going to work it out.
You've already started, or like so many in road haulage, you give up
when things get difficult?


evidence?

Any number of winter time news reports showing vehicles dumped just because
there's a bit of snow on the ground.


And that has what to do with the annual cost of the uk road network? or
what to do with giving up when it gets difficult?

Remind me whilst you are at it about the wrong kinds of snow? or leaves?
and the devestating effect on the nations trainset caused by these
totally unpredictable natural events.

And of course I am still waiting to be shown where I can apply for the
truck subsidy.