Phillip
Stone - Why YOU Need to Belong to a Trade Association for Couriers - My Annual Rant -
From the DA Chief Executive
“ Dear Phil, - I am looking around to try & find a trade body that I might join, in able to get my views and concerns aired to the government about the effects of their policies on my business and countless others in the courier industry. I have researched a number of other organisations, and it appears that all the 'big boys' or National & International courier companies have aligned themselves and are represented in Parliamentary Select Committee meetings by AICES.....
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Action for the Courier Industry - Successful appeal to generous DA couriers -
DA members will recall an appeal through the DA Newsletter made by Keith Perry of Cambridge Courier Services to support him in raising funds for Kidney Research UK. Well, ‘mad’ Keith made his successful leap from a plane flying at 13,000 ft. in late March and by so doing raised over £1500 - his target was £1000....
Money
News MPs among others are already questioning the Government’s ability to police the new entrepreneurs’ relief scheme according to reports -
The entrepreneurs’ relief rate, announced by the Chancellor in January as a concession to small businesses, will offer individuals a 10% Capital Gains Tax (CGT) rate on the first £1 million of gains they make over a lifetime...
Road Transport - Europe’s new ideas on road safety -
The European Commission has put forward proposals which the DfT is considering that will protect pedestrians and other vulnerable road users from collisions with passenger cars and light vans...
Focus
on Business First Reviews released -
The first Hampton Implementation Reviews, which aim to put an end to the one-size-fits-all approach to business regulation, have been released..
End Piece - Watch Out! Road Pricing is Still About
Just when you thought that 1.8 million signatories to the anti-road pricing petition on the Downing Street website signalled the end of this poorly-thought out concept comes government backdoor plans that could see it back on the agenda...
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Just when you thought that 1.8 million signatories to the anti-road pricing petition on the Downing Street website signalled the end of this poorly-thought out concept comes government backdoor plans that could see it back on the agenda.
At the same time that the transport secretary Ruth Kelly announced plans to introduce automatic traffic management to 800 lane-kilometres of motorway and to restrict new lanes on widened motorways to high occupancy vehicles or to charge a toll on single occupant vehicles using them, the DfT called for expressions of interest in trialling new technology. The trials would include both positioning technology and ‘behavioural’ tests to examine the ability of back office systems to deal with issues of security and privacy. All these studies are due to report next year, with DfT-funded trails of satellite charging systems commencing this autumn.
Taken together, these initiatives demonstrate that reports of the death of road pricing were exaggerated; in fact, we may be witnessing its second coming.
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