On 1 April 2014, the UK will be introducing a new time-based user charge for Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGV) at or above 12 tonnes, which will ensure that, for the first time, foreign HGVs using the UK road network contribute to the costs of maintaining the roads they use. The Levy has been set in line with EU legislation with the rate paid reflecting vehicle weight and axle configuration. There are seven levy bands which align with existing Vehicle Excise Duty bands.
Northgate Public Services have been awarded the contract to develop and manage the foreign operator payment system, which will enable foreign operators or drivers to purchase the Levy in advance of entering the UK through a number of sales channels including online, telephone and at point of sale terminals. The system will also create a database to enable authorities to identify and take action on hauliers who have not paid.
For more information read the leaflet at hgvlevy-info.org.uk
Northgate will also be delivering a communication campaign to ensure all drivers who this may affect are made aware. We would encourage any HGV drivers to let their fellow drivers from outside the UK know about the introduction of the charge.
There’s just the tiniest mention about UK hgv’s having this levy offset against their VED. What isn’t clear is if UK firms have to pay daily like foreign trucks do, and recieve a discount on the VED or if there’s no requirement to pay daily and its just a paper excercise that UK firms can just get on without any interruptions.
m1cks:
There’s just the tiniest mention about UK hgv’s having this levy offset against their VED. What isn’t clear is if UK firms have to pay daily like foreign trucks do, and recieve a discount on the VED or if there’s no requirement to pay daily and its just a paper excercise that UK firms can just get on without any interruptions.
From what I’ve read, road tax for UK hauliers will be reduced by the same amount as the levy they’ll pay. but in practice what seem to be happening is that you pay your road tax as normal and part of it pays the levy and the rest is VED. So for UK hauliers they’ll be no real difference in fee or system of payment, and also if your vehicle is registered in the UK you can’t opt out of paying a years levy and only paying for the days its used on UK roads.
Do someone have more informations where it will be possible to pay the toll?I know that you can pay the toll online…
But i can´t find more informations where you can pay at a toll terminal manual. In the information letter there is only the infomation that it will be possible to pay at some fuel stations or at the ferry terminals somewhere…but where exactly?
Well it seems to me that to get this system up and running by 1 April this year is pie in the sky, its so simple for the gvt to set up a payment system as the vehicles enter the UK at the ports - passport/ID and payment - done - simple and easy, oh yeah … too simple for this bureaucratic island isn’t it?
You can virtually guarantee that the UK haulier will be out of pocket somewhere down the line.
I work for a firm that has to pay this charge. No problem as far as my boss is concerned BUT … what has been under discussion is this and we have not seen an answer yet anywhere.
If you pay the YEARLY charge of £1000, does that eliminate you from the cabotage rules■■? The yearly charge is equivalent to 100 daily payments and as VOSA cannot dictate to you the days that you use the permit on, does it give you carte blanche to drive in the UK when you want ie 200 days for free?
It doesn’t affect us that much as I have done maybe three internal loads in the UK in 9 months … all our work is in and straight back out. But if the cabotage rules are being abandoned then I can see merry hell being caused by our friends from the eastern bloc!! What is happening at ports like the Hook, Zeebrugge and Europoort at the moment I can see happening at Felixstowe, Southampton and Tilbury … then the fun will begin.
TheBear:
I work for a firm that has to pay this charge. No problem as far as my boss is concerned BUT … what has been under discussion is this and we have not seen an answer yet anywhere.
If you pay the YEARLY charge of £1000, does that eliminate you from the cabotage rules■■? The yearly charge is equivalent to 100 daily payments and as VOSA cannot dictate to you the days that you use the permit on, does it give you carte blanche to drive in the UK when you want ie 200 days for free?
It doesn’t affect us that much as I have done maybe three internal loads in the UK in 9 months … all our work is in and straight back out. But if the cabotage rules are being abandoned then I can see merry hell being caused by our friends from the eastern bloc!! What is happening at ports like the Hook, Zeebrugge and Europoort at the moment I can see happening at Felixstowe, Southampton and Tilbury … then the fun will begin.
It doesn’t eliminate cabotage regulations, its just the UK govenment doing what almost every other EU country has done for years and charged foreign trucks.
I beleive the cabotage regs were supposed to end this year, but protests by various haulage bodies and govenments worried at what it might do to thier national haulage industry has meant it being postponed, for now at least.
From what I read about it, our Goverment or trade bodies didn’t seem to be involved n its postponement, but pretty much what we’ve come to expect.
This will be put back there has been one piece of paper handed out at the ferry booths none at all at the train I drive a foreign registered truck there are no signs any where no notices any where of where you can pay ie terminals or machines.theres no way all foreign registered trucks are aware that it begins in just over a week. They say if you dont pay you will be stopped so who does the stopping police or vosa dont see either having the time to stop every truck. and check
think the clue is in the date
hanson:
This will be put back there has been one piece of paper handed out at the ferry booths none at all at the train I drive a foreign registered truck there are no signs any where no notices any where of where you can pay ie terminals or machines.theres no way all foreign registered trucks are aware that it begins in just over a week. They say if you dont pay you will be stopped so who does the stopping police or vosa dont see either having the time to stop every truck. and check
think the clue is in the date
Police or VOSA won’t need to stop every wagon, it’s on yet another database somewhere. So they’ll just speak to their dispatch, who’ll phone whoever looks after the database, same as insurance/MOT checks.
only fault i can see with that sort of policing is that all European trucks except (southern Ireland and Spain) have trailer reg on rear not truck reg , so will it be policed by camera? like we get at msa’s?
Simon:
Police or VOSA won’t need to stop every wagon, it’s on yet another database somewhere. So they’ll just speak to their dispatch, who’ll phone whoever looks after the database, same as insurance/MOT checks.
really? i’m surprised that you couldn’t type it into a lappy in the patrol car and see what it says about the registration.
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so plenty of places to choose from
