Just days after the Government put fuel duty up by 1p a litre, fuel prices have hit a record average of £1.20p a litre and experts warned the price could rocket to £1.50p this summer due to the weak pound and increased cost of wholesale fuel.
In an industry where fuel constitutes an enormous part of every haulage company’s overheads, the fuel duty increase is affecting all areas of the industry around the UK.
Haulage companies are not happy with the recent fuel duty increaseTony Burriedge, from Lancashire, set up his own haulage company 12 months ago and is now being forced to abandon his business as petrol and diesel prices have rocketed recently.
He said: “I am officially packing it in at the end of this week. I can’t afford to run with the prices people are paying. We are still fighting competition from Europe where they have cheaper fuel, we just can’t compete with them.”
Andrew Spence, a farmer, who led Fuel Lobby protesters at the Shell UK plant in Jarrow in both 2000 and 2005, warned that angry haulage companies are prepared to launch action and make petrol prices a political issue once again.
The 42-year-old, who also runs a haulage business in Durham said feelings were running high in the haulage industry and blockades could be back before the General Election.
10 comments on “Angry hauliers warn to protest before General Election”
i have been a courier for 6 yrs and i think its about time the fuel was put down to a sensible price . its ok for these fat cats that sit in the office doing nothing and getting big bonuses , think of us poor workers doing a tough job for peanuts due to the cost of fuel .
I personally have had to close my Ltd. company down & now i'm working as a sole trader – due to fuel increases !!! u say £1.20 a litre ?? try filling up on a motorway at £1.30 – but there again they dont pay for there fuel…we do … freightman
If there is a protest then it wants to be everyone who runs vehicles and not left to the haulage lads again. This time lets make the government know we are not taking it anymore, they will have to cut the VAT on fuel for haulage use down to 10% or bellow.
gordon brown is ruining this economy by forcing business out how can this be right for the country. get the fuel down and start proving to us workers that the government is here for the people
we will gladly join any protest this year its got to stop and maybe we can get the gen public to join in as they pay the added extra through the shelf price.
Well we run a number of vehicle and have had complaints from customers about the increase in cost to them but it is the only way we can cope. We already have a fuel bill in the thousands every year and i wish that some one would listen to us haulage companies and not just complain about the cost and complain when we run go slows and make blockades.
Although the cost of fuel is soaring, customers will not absorb the price hike, We have to! Vote with your ballot card this May and get these so called pro working class con-men out of office, they have stuffed us for the last 13 years and should be placed to account for defrauding the working people of this country.
I AM A SOLE TRADER AND HAVE BEEN HIT HARD LIKE EVERYONE ELSE THEY MAKE THE DEAL OVER THE LAST FEW MONTHS THE WANT SMALL COMPA WORK AND WANT HELP US BUT THEN THEY TURN INTO HIBERGRITS AND PUT THE PRICE UP AND UP THIS GOVERMENT IS SCREWED BRING ON THE PROTESTS
D&M; LOGISTICS
Hat’s off. Well done, as we know that “hard work always pays off”,
after a long struggle with sincere effort it’s done.Home Insurance
fuel has to be as it used to be 97p per litre, it is hard for us one man bands which the fuel plays a massive part in, we will earn a better living if the prices of fuel go back down, this country is a discrace
Paul Reilly
PCRServicesUK
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