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Most foreign hauliers face far higher insurance, business taxes and social contributions.
The chancellor's planned introduction of a "Vignette" or licence system to make foreign hauliers pay for the use of British roads follows the practice of other EU countries.
Mike Presneill of Transaction 2007, who helped organise the protest, told the BBC: "Foreign hauliers are entering the UK with cheaper fuel purchased abroad.
They would simply group their consignments together more and use foreign hauliers.
"In 2003, cabotage activities conducted by French hauliers amounted to 14.4%% of the cabotage activities conducted by foreign hauliers in France.
And he also announced that plans to charge foreign hauliers to use the UK's roads would be introduced a year earlier than planned.
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In particular, the tax was criticized as unfair to some regions (such as Brittany where the network is almost free) which would be highly taxed, as well as to French hauliers as foreign trucks use motorways more.
Only the OTRE, the organization of European road hauliers, wished to maintain the double tax, considering in particular that the TGAP provided a means of taxing foreign firms, whereas the other federations took the view that it encouraged delocalization.
American hauliers have exported trash to China.
Foreign, foreign, foreign.
Yes, farmers and road hauliers are having a tough time.
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