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Drop truck tax or face mass street protest, small truckers warn France
L'ORGANISATION des Transporteurs Routiers Europeens (OTRE), the French trucking association that represents small operators, is threatening a mass road closing protest unless France withdraws plans for a transit tax on heavy goods vehicles.
Unless the tax is "definitively abandoned" in a week, OTRE members will take "large-scale action" from October 17, reported Lloyd's Loading List.
This would entail blocking roads and distribution hubs and could also lead to an all-out freight transport strike.
The ultimatum comes after France's leading labour union bodies broke off negotiations with the government on a new version of the tax.
Environment Minister Segolene Royal, whose portfolio includes transport, called on truckers to calm down, saying the tax had been reduced.
Unless the tax is "definitively abandoned" in a week, OTRE members will take "large-scale action" from October 17, reported Lloyd's Loading List.
This would entail blocking roads and distribution hubs and could also lead to an all-out freight transport strike.
The ultimatum comes after France's leading labour union bodies broke off negotiations with the government on a new version of the tax.
Environment Minister Segolene Royal, whose portfolio includes transport, called on truckers to calm down, saying the tax had been reduced.
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