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DfT revisits lorry distance charge

28 October 2016
 

The DfT is looking again at the introduction of distance-based lorry road user charging. The idea was studied in the early 2000s but abandoned in 2005. The Road Haulage Association (RHA) this month reported that Duncan Price, a divisional manager at the DfT, told a conference on road haulage skills that the issue was now being revisited. A distance-based charge could replace the time-based HGV road user levy, introduced in 2014. RHA director of policy Jack Semple said: “The RHA will...

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