Motor carriers were granted a “suspension” of transit toll trucks. Instead, Segolene Royal discusses his idea of drawing on the benefits of motorway companies
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After the abandonment of the environmental tax, it was the turn of his “light” version, the “pay-transit trucks” to fall by the wayside . Thursday morning, after receiving the representatives of federations of motor carriers with the Secretary of State for Transport, Alain Vidal, the environment minister announced the suspension “sine die” from this tax.
There are few days, the road had threatened to block the roads of France from October 13 if the government did not abandon the project, with filter dams and other operations snails. They eventually abandoned the movement after the declaration of the minister. An ad that does not make everyone happy, even within the majority. Former Secretary of State for Transport, Frédéric Cuvillier, has indicated on Twitter
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In terms of Europe Ecologie-Les Verts (EELV), the reaction did not take long. On Twitter, the general secretary, Emmanuelle Cosse said: “Why do so many weaknesses facing the lobbies? The French will pay the piper “. I & gt; television, she said “outraged” , considering that in this case, the road had already “many counterparties” .
On the side of the UMP, the former Minister of Ecology, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, held in a tweet that Ségolène Royal “murderous ecology”
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Position hardened
Toll transit trucks, which was to replace the environmental tax, would have concerned the heavyweights over 3.5 tonnes traveling over some 4,000 miles of national and local roads (against 15,000 km in the original project). It was to take effect, according to the Government, in the “first few months” 2015 The experiment began on 1 October.
Hauliers have hardened their position on the subject and now overwhelmingly reject the tax, arguing, as Nicolas Paulissen, the CEO of the National Federation of Motor Carriers (FNTR) that “is incompatible with the crisis that we live” and “creates regional disparities are unacceptable,” . In addition, “this toll-called transit will first affect our businesses, the French transport, local transport” , he has argued this morning before the meeting at the ministry.
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Tuesday, Segolene Royal had attempted to call hauliers to reason, asking them to “calm” , and recalling that “circuits which are now within the toll transit were significantly reduced” . On Wednesday, the Minister of Ecology, which has never been an ardent follower of the environmental tax – it had asked the government for its abandonment after he was suspended – had then indicated that it would propose to motor carriers “establish a working group to monitor the application of the device” . This is “see together intelligently, if it works or if it does not work (…) with common sense and a spirit of partnership” she added.
Toll transit trucks finally for now stored in boxes. Instead, to fund transport infrastructure, the environment minister talks about his idea of a levy on the profits of motorway companies, advanced upon arrival at the government. She argued that the companies in question ‘were privatized below their price by the Villepin government “” are now 8.5 billion turnover and release 2 billions in profits “.
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