RHA chairman Willie Oliver this week called on the government to resist any temptation to raise fuel duty, just because prices have fallen back slightly in recent weeks. He told the association's annual lunch that duty levels have been frozen for four years, "due in no small part to relentless lobbying" by the RHA.
"The temptation to add 2p or 3p per litre to duty may become overwhelming. But for the road haulage sector this would prove disastrous. What possible sense would it make to see
the difference between UK fuel duty and the average paid elsewhere in the EU rise from 24ppl to 26 or 27ppl?" he said.
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