The resulting £100m hit on haulers every year would inevitably end up being passed on to businesses whenever possible, according to Peter Cullum of the Road Haulage Association, an industry group.Worse, once high administrative costs are taken into account, some forecasts suggest that Britain's toll may not break even until 2015.
Japan's carmakers and their global partners provided lots of excitement for those who earn their living behind the wheel by showing off the new features they have added to cargo haulers, fire engines, cop cars, dump trucks, ambulances and so on.
In many parts of the world, motor transport still has not displaced human and animal carriers and haulers in the movement of military supply.
Before the age of mechanization, the soldier's carrying capacity was usually supplemented by additional carriers and haulers, human and animal.
Heavy-duty haulers with GVW ratings of more than 26,000 pounds are cross-country tractor-trailer combinations and off-road construction or mining trucks; these account for the remainder.
The real criminal, they say, is Mr Petro, a polemical figure who earlier this year successfully fought an attempt by Colombia's inspector general to unseat him for flouting the law by trying to fire private garbage haulers.
Freight traffic has declined, partly because of fallen demand for products such as coal, iron, and oil, traditionally carried by rail, and partly because of intense competition from road haulers.
A series of thefts the following February is blamed on a gang nicknamed the Freight Haulers.
"I saw the loads start out as logging trucks, then freight haulers, then hazardous materials.
For the city's independent grease haulers, Griffin's arrival came as a shock; people who had serviced accounts for decades had their livelihoods threatened overnight.
