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| Thread ID: 91317 | 2008-07-03 01:33:00 | Stay out of Auckland CBD tomorrow(friday 4th july) | lance4k (4644) | PC World Chat |
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| 684832 | 2008-07-03 01:33:00 | There is a truck driver protest about the road user charges they have to pay. So trucks will probably bring traffic to a standstill in the Auckland CBD between 7.30am-9am tomorrow(friday 4th july). www.nzherald.co.nz So you shouldn't drive your car into the CBD between these times otherwise you will be stuck in traffic. It said there will be about 1000 trucks. So you don't want to be burning fuel by your car moving at a snails pace in the CBD because youll probably be there for hours waiting. It sucks these truck drivers don't care about the disruption they will cause to CBD workers like courier drivers who do the CBD route and also people who don't know about this will be stuck in traffic and late for work and waste alot of fuel. It's obvious these truckies don't care about other people. They could drive out to the country away from the CBD and find a park or racetrack to protest instead of annoying the people of the CBD. It looks like it will be raining in the CBD tomorrow so i doubt any workers will be out there supporting them. |
lance4k (4644) | ||
| 684833 | 2008-07-03 01:37:00 | Carnage. :banana |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 684834 | 2008-07-03 01:39:00 | Aren't the courier drivers part of it too? Or are the truckies just protesting on their behalf? | the_bogan (9949) | ||
| 684835 | 2008-07-03 01:46:00 | Truck drivers protesting on behalf of the couriers? that doesn't make much sense. Courier firms move packages between cities on trucks, so they are affected, as is the entire economy, Everything in this country goes by road, so expect to feel the hit, Road user charges go into the consolidated fund and are then spent wherever the communist scum see fit. NZ has just been hit by a tax increase. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 684836 | 2008-07-03 01:47:00 | only diesel vehicles pay road user charges i think. Aren't the courier drivers part of it too? Or are the truckies just protesting on their behalf? |
lance4k (4644) | ||
| 684837 | 2008-07-03 01:54:00 | They could drive out to the country away from the CBD and find a park or racetrack to protest instead of annoying the people of the CBD. It looks like it will be raining in the CBD tomorrow so i doubt any workers will be out there supporting them. Kind of defeats the point though, huh? It's kind of like saying Osama should have just piled the planes into some corn fields... Disruption is what they want. Otherwise it's not protest, it's just a mass whinge. |
Thebananamonkey (7741) | ||
| 684838 | 2008-07-03 01:56:00 | only diesel vehicles pay road user charges i think. Yarp. And did I read somewhere it's only for vehicles over 3 tonnes? Which would be why the courier drivers aren't protesting as well. The whole thing ties in very well with the government buying back the rail network. I guess as an incentive to use rail rather than road. Which is all well and good, except they are going to have to do a lot of work on the rail network first. That's probably what the extra tax will end up going to!! |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 684839 | 2008-07-03 02:34:00 | Yarp. And did I read somewhere it's only for vehicles over 3 tonnes? Which would be why the courier drivers aren't protesting as well. The whole thing ties in very well with the government buying back the rail network. I guess as an incentive to use rail rather than road. Which is all well and good, except they are going to have to do a lot of work on the rail network first. That's probably what the extra tax will end up going to!! All diesels have to pay RUC. I think it may be the case that any vehicle over 3 tonnes has to pay extra charges, regardless of fuel type. |
roddy_boy (4115) | ||
| 684840 | 2008-07-03 02:41:00 | All diesels have to pay RUC. I think it may be the case that any vehicle over 3 tonnes has to pay extra charges, regardless of fuel type. I meant the increase is for vehicles over 3 tonnes yeah. Possibly - not a lot of vehicles in NZ over 3 tonne that run on petrol though, that's a very minimal issue. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 684841 | 2008-07-03 02:55:00 | Its not just Auckland. Its lots of towns. They are doing it in Invercargill tomorrow too. And its not just trucks. My husbands ute is affected to, because its diesel. The Registration goes up loads more than petrol cars, the road user fees go up AND diesel has gone up as well. Anything that uses diesel is now super expensive. Expect it to affect YOU, prices will go up because of the trucks transports costs. |
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