PHOTO: The trucking industry says new charges will send some operators over the edge
“Unconscionable,” a “cruel blow,” and even “the sound of a death knell for some operators” – these are some of the responses to the decision by Transport ministers around the country to hike the Road User Charge (RUC) for heavy vehicles by six percent over each of the next three years.
The new charges will start on 1 July this year.
“This level of increase is considered by ministers to strike the right balance between the need to move back towards cost-recovery of the heavy vehicle share of road expenditure and the need to minimize impacts on this vital industry,” theTransport Ministers said in a joint statement…