Haulage companies hate the increased road taxes that Switzerland started to levy this year.
Foreign lorry drivers had "long enjoyed an advantage over our own haulage industry", he told MPs.
The main problem facing the road haulage industry is over-capacity too many trucks chasing too little work.
In the early 1960s it was a small family haulage business based in Yorkshire.
Mike Freeman, head of international operations for the Road Haulage Association, accused the French of ill-discipline.
The chancellor's bounty will do little for them because haulage rates will be further cut.
He came to Walgett fifty years ago and built up a successful haulage business.
NERA, an economic consultancy, concluded that haulage rates do not reflect the true cost of freight transport.
Leanne works as accountant in the family's haulage business which is sadly closing after more than 100 years.
' She's referring to Lower Wacker Drive, the subterranean haulage network which staged car chases in both of Nolan's Batman films.
Continental haulage firms face higher social and employment costs and road tolls on many of their domestic routes.
The Road Haulage Association (RHA) is calling on lorry drivers to stop littering roadsides with bottles full of urine.
Mr Allan is arranging the meeting between haulage firm bosses and Mr Brown.
Bill had been in haulage as a young man and considered himself expert.
Instead it was largely a tactical retreat in the face of a barrage of criticism from motoring and road-haulage organisations.
Some are also offering free haulage, but he said more was needed.
More than 150 jobs are going at a haulage company in Coventry.
The local haulage association wants highway rest-stops to be reopened to allow drivers to take the breaks required of them by law.
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Operator Midland Expressway Limited (MEL) has agreed to let members of the Road Haulage Association access the route free of charge throughout July.
If environmental and social factors are taken into account, the cost of road haulage in Britain may be too low, not too high.
As a cost-cutting measure, platooning would allow haulage firms to arrange trucks in tight convoys and eliminate drivers in all but the lead vehicle.
Malcolm Bingham, from the organisation, said most haulage companies would be able to plan around the closures and would benefit in the long term.
It is now acknowledged, even by those representing car and road-haulage interests, that measures to restrain vehicle use by price or regulation are inevitable.
But, certainly, in almost every traditional sector of the economy, including housing, retailing, road-haulage, railways, consumer products and manufacturing, there are hints of cooling.
Meanwhile, Phil Flanders from the Road Haulage Association said lorry drivers recognised that although there would be difficulties, the benefits would make the disruption worthwhile.
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Additional measures being investigated include encouraging haulage companies to undertake out-of-hours deliveries and monitoring the experience of cities which have banned lorries from certain parts.
Another local businessman, Richard Bonfield, said the "sheer scale" of the operation could hit businesses such as manufacturing and haulage as well as local tourism.
Following meetings with island councillors and haulage bosses, Transport Minister Keith Brown also agreed to commission consultants to review the impact of removing RET from large freight.
Labour MP and chair of the Commons transport committee Louise Ellman said the legislation was "about backing the UK haulage industry and helping create a level playing field".
While dramas such as the Maastricht votes or ministerial resignation speeches attract prime-time viewers, debates on public sanitation or road haulage remain curiously neglected by the viewing public.
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