Great idea.if lorry more drive that must pay more tax.If farm owner drive less and not use so much motorway that must pay less.
It is wrong to claim that the supermarkets are responsible for a lot of empty running, they are suprisingly efficient especially the ones which use roll cages. A load of supplies into a store will be backloaded with either recycling or cages which goes either to the RDC or its nearby recycling centre. From the recycling centre the majority will reload cages for the RDC. The supermarkets also do a significant number of their own collections from suppliers, both for the local RDC’s use and to be trunked to their other distribution centres, sometimes covering suprising distances, Tesco for example used to trunk from Strood to Middlewich and Magor to Snodland.
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Dork Lard:
I’m struggling to think how all this might affect a driver ?I think it’s just Chris Grayling bright idea. The bloke is complete and utter buffoon. The technology that would be required at truck and monitoring level would be immense. Assuming pricing was charged on a road by road basis that’d all need sorting out. Then because you’re relying on gps there’s the issue of signal drop out in built up areas. Cost wise and bureaucracy wise it’ll be pricey. Obviously that won’t be an issue, in fact it’s the primary reason it will happen, because the Tories love giving private contracts like that to their old school chums.
As to the affects on the driver that will vary on a company by company basis. The routes selected by the driver would more than ever come under the spotlight. Obviously the most economic route will be required. However a pleb behind a desk won’t take into account traffic jams or cluttered junctions that make certain routes unsuitable, they’ll just get their spreadsheets out and post out snotty letters with bits highlighted with fluorescent pens.
Works fine across Belgium, no immense costs of technology and monitoring. No signal drop out. Its not particularly difficult to set a tariff on a road type.
Could it be that you haven’t a clue?
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Dork Lard:
I’m struggling to think how all this might affect a driver ?I think it’s just Chris Grayling bright idea. The bloke is complete and utter buffoon. The technology that would be required at truck and monitoring level would be immense. Assuming pricing was charged on a road by road basis that’d all need sorting out. Then because you’re relying on gps there’s the issue of signal drop out in built up areas. Cost wise and bureaucracy wise it’ll be pricey. Obviously that won’t be an issue, in fact it’s the primary reason it will happen, because the Tories love giving private contracts like that to their old school chums.
Works fine across Belgium,
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And Austria, Hungary, Czech, Poland, Norway, Portugal, Germany (if you have a toll box)
Yep be really difficult to set-up, never been done before.
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And Austria, Hungary, Czech, Poland, Norway, Portugal, Germany (if you have a toll box)Yep be really difficult to set-up, never been done before.
How dare you come in here with facts and evidence to back up a previous statement.
I hope we don’t get an ugly box, the German one would be alright if it wasn’t the size of a spaceship.
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To be honest, why don’t they just bite the bullet and toll all the major motorways?
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To be honest, why don’t they just bite the bullet and toll all the major motorways?
Because A roads or minor roads or local roads would then be flooded with traffic looking to not pay. Why do you think the M6 Toll is nearly always dead?