New road charging rules for HGVs will impact Irish trucks – Cuffe

New road charging rules for heavy goods vehicles in the EU will impact Irish road hauliers. That’s according to Green Party MEP Ciaran Cuffe.

The European Parliament has just approved new, distance-based road charging rules for heavy goods vehicles (trucks, lorries and buses), which MEPs say will help reduce CO2 emissions.

The aim of the new rules is to move road charging from a time-based model to distance-based or an actual kilometres-driven system, to better reflect the polluter-pays and user-pays principles. They will apply to heavy goods vehicles using trans-European transport (TEN-T) network roads. 

Ciaran Cuffe explains how it will effect lorry drivers travelling to and from Ireland.

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