FTA writes to DfT for HGV driving test fee increases

The Freight Transport Association (FTA) has recently written to the Department for Transport (DfT) Minister, Jim Fitzpatrick, calling for proposed fee increases regarding HGV testing to be scrapped. A joint letter from the FTA and the Federation of Minor Businesses more or less debates these proposed HGV test increases.

For that matter, this joint letter from the Freight Transport Association and Federation of Minor Businesses in fact attacks the proposals regarding HGV testing with a 9% rise in the cost of an annual HGV test, including a 6% rise in the cost of other HGV testing services proposed so far.

Thereby, the letter says: “The scale and timing of these increases are lost on the bulk of our members, hence facing the worst trading conditions in a generation.” The joint letter also attacks these increases as being “actually the product” of most internal funding restrictions, rules and accounting laws or policies, mainly reinforced last year.

In conclusion, the joint letter is also part of the FTA campaign called “Every Penny Counts”, which calls for a moratorium on not just the annual free increases regarding HGV tests, but also on current fuel duty rises in the basic vocational HGV driving test fee. This letter is thus expected to change all of this.