REVISED TRAFFIC FEES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 518, 22 November 1928, Page 16

REVISED TRAFFIC FEES

ONE-TON TRUCKS TO PAY TAXES ONE TREE HILL PROPOSAL A report was received from the traffic inspector at last evening’s meeting of the One Tree Hill Road Board containing a suggestion that all commercial vehicles should pay traffic licence fees, irrespective of any weight limit. The board commended the suggestion, and decided to bring it to the notice of the Public Works Department. At present, said the report, vehicles weighing less than. two tons did not pay tax, therefore a lorry weighing with its load 2 tons lewt paid £6, while one that weighed 1 ton 19cwt did not pay anything. Yet it was impossible to say that one was doing more damage than the other. Also, the half-ton commercial van, which was on the road all day, did fare more damage than it paid for, because many of these so-called halfton trucks were often loaded up almost to the two-ton mark, and sometimes even past it. To get over this difficulty, the inspector proposed that commercial vehicles weighing up to one ton should pay a £2 tax, and those weighing between one and two tons should pay £4 in tax.