Truckies split on blockade
PA Auckland Auckland drivers will meet this week to gain support for their protest blockade of Parliament.
Mounting anger over the road-user charges is causing a split in the industry 7. Members of the drivers’ action group, Progress, say they are fed up with the tax, and say that a blockade is the best way of protest. However, the group’s parent body, the Road Transport Association, has condemned the scheme as irresponsible. Association drivers .. dissatisfied with the organisation’s record in getting the legislation revoked last year formed “Progress” to take more radical action. Tomorrow’s meeting will give drivers a chance to thrash out their grievances over the tax, said a spokesman for Progress, Mr R. McSweeney yesterday. He hoped about 70 to 80 Auckland trucks would be among the 200 driving to Wellington late this month or nearly next month. “They are proposing another 11.5 per cent increase in the tax this year,” Mr McSweeney said. He said the group had tried every other means of getting the tax changed.
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