I see the Green Party in the feature above there are still in the twilight zone, expecting that this charge of £10 per entry to foreign trucks would help to keep a sizeable level of trucking off the road, and shove a sizeable amount of goods onto other forms of transport. This is baloney Im afraid. The twilight zone..Green style.
There are just no alternatives to this form of goods movement. The train can do some but has nothing like the intricacies of network needed.
Sure, trucks clog up the road...look at this...Dover peak time..
but we are stuck with it. The problem with this £10 charge is that it will inevitably be passed on to the poor hapless customer in the shop. His goods will go up in cost so its yet another tax on top of all the other taxes. Trucking companies as I understand it are not terribly flush, didnt one trucking organisation around these parts go bust recently, much the same in Europe I expect... so the only thing that they can do is pass it on...and who pays, yes...the guy standing in the queue in Tesco.