jjcymru:
Just think - its not only trucks. We all rely on fuel - its just there’s too many tory voting idiots in this country that are prepared to do what westminster want.
Sorry but what did Labour do for us? I can’t seem to remember!
I wote to my Labour MP when she was in power about the fuel/foreigners/state of the industry, how worried I was about my business etc I eventually got a reply (months later I may add) with the usual politically correct rubbish, saying how in fact fuel prices had decreased in real monetary terms followed by another 2 pages of bull. (I still have the letters if anyone wants a copy).
I also wrote to the then campaiging Conservative candidate-Amber Valley, now elected, giving a copy of all my letters and replys with the Labour mp. I asked the same question, what will you do, when and how? The Conservative candidate came across as very eager to please, he met myself and 4 other ods for a drink and a chat in our local, was very interested in us, our business and what we wanted/needed as both individuals and an industry. He promised to look into it and ‘speak to the right people’ to see how things stood and what the partys views were etc etc.
I have since wrtten to him (4 times now last one just before Christmas) asking what was happening, are they going to introduce some sort of user rebate scheme, would they delay the fuel duty increases, will they help us in any sort of way asap, what happened to putting the 40 mph limit on sngle roads up to the 50 mph limit etc? I still haven’t received any sort of reply or answers to any of my questions.
What really winds me up is that he came across as really geninune and wanting to help local business`, understood are plight and agreed things needed to change. The truth is I’m afraid to say is all he was interested in was getting elected.
What im trying to say, whoever Labour, Conservative, Lib dem etc , they are only interested in 1 thing-themselves and how things will turn out for them. They treat us like mushrooms-keep us in the dark and feed us …
The RHA, FTA are the same, we as an industry are no better, we are all full of hot air, ‘we want this, we want that, fuel pricing is ridiculous we should strike, lets all have a week off.’ No one will do anything about it, nobody will stick together to do anything about it-because we are only interested in one person-ourselves. If we can make an extra £1 or gain a bit more work, at the cost of Joe bloggs down the road because he is striking then we will. Don’t get me wrong, if we all did stop/strike I’d be there, like I was last time.
The UK`s Owner driver/small haulier is a maimed animal just waiting for the lions to come and finish them off. The only ones left by the time of the next election will be the 4/5 big plc/ltd companies that are running round hacking the already low rates up, and we will be working 4 on 4 off.
