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Old June 9th 18, 10:05 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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On 09/06/2018 09:10, tim... wrote:


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On 08/06/2018 22:13, Someone Somewhere wrote:

In terms of raising the cost of transport for everyone in London,
presumably you refer to the demographic of Londoners who use coaches
on a regular basis?

No, I refer to the demographic that buys stuff in shops, uses buses or
uses coaches, such as the many commuter services. If you buy it in a
shop, it has been delivered by a lorry which will soon need to comply
with Euro 6 rules or pay the penalty charge. Look at the number of
pre-2014 lorries on the road next time you are out and about to see
the scale of the problem.


so people will just have to manage their fleet better and use these
vehicles somewhere else

For large companies, that may be possible. Journeys like school
transport and construction industry transport are mostly done by
companies who own a few vehicles, or, in the case of school transport,
often a single vehicle.

I realise that there is going to be a number of smaller companies that
can't do this, but for the majority of vehicles surely it is possible?

The problem is that until very recently, the transport industry believed
that they had until at least the mid 2020's to comply with the new
emissions rules. Now, all of a sudden, vehicles that they bought in good
faith 4 or 5 years ago with an expected service life of 15 years or so,
will now have to be replaced five years or so earlier than expected.
These vehicles serve 15% of the population of the UK. There are many
distribution depots inside the new ULEZ so even lorries that are
delivering to the Home Counties will need to comply with the rules.

One minor London delivery that I've noticed is from a fish supplier in
Cornwall who run a daily delivery to London restaurants. This company
now needs to replace their van 5 years before its normal end of life.

Think of the way that private motorists who were persuaded by the
Government to buy diesel cars by being given tax breaks have now found
them to be worth much less than they were a few months ago before the
authorities announced that all diesel vehicles including cars will be
banned in many London boroughs within a very short time frame, and the
tax benefits of owning a diesel car have been reduced drastically.
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Tciao for Now!

John.