“Here we go again” says RHA
Diesel prices are going up again, the government is making matters worse and it should scrap the diesel duty increase planned for April 1st – or at the very least rebate the increase to haulage businesses.
That is the message from the Road Haulage Association, whose weekly fuel price survey (out at noon today) shows that the national average diesel price paid by hauliers rose by 2.88 pence a litre this week. The new price is 82.45 pence (ex VAT).
The Chancellor will add 1.84 pence to that on April 1, after adding 2 pence last December. Together, these two fuel duty increases add more than £2,000 to the cost of running a typical articulated lorry.
“This latest increase will take the duty rate to 54.10 pence a litre – or £2.46 a gallon,” which is by far the highest diesel duty level in the EU,” said RHA Chief Executive Roger King.
“There is little the government can do about diesel prices, certainly in the short term. But its policy of ever-increasing duty rates on road hauliers will be felt, not only by transport firms and their customers but by everyone in Britain through the prices they pay in the shops”.
Road Haulage Association – more than you think
For more details, contact RHA Head of Communications, Kate Gibbs on . . .
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 838917
Mob: + 44 (0) 7979 531451
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