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3rd July 2008, 09:25 | #1 | |
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Truckies plan downtown gridlock over road charges
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Fucken good on them I say. Sif trucks aren't already expensive enough to operate. Better leave early(er) for work tomorrow you jaffas! |
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3rd July 2008, 09:36 | #2 |
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What's worse is that they had an assurance from the Transport Minister that they would be notified of any increases a month in advance. Instead, it gets sprung as a surprise, on the same day the Govt buys back the rail - ie kicking them when they are down.
Wonder how many truckies will vote Labour in a couple of months... |
3rd July 2008, 10:20 | #3 |
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how much is the increase in road user charges and what impact will it have on transport costs?
No facts in the herald, just a lot of anti-labour propaganda leading up to an election. Trucking good around the country has got to be the most inefficent and costly method out, plus the increased conjestion on the roads, not to mention fatalities Return to rail for nationwide distribution with smaller trucks transporting short distances, it's logical. NZ councils, governments and media sold us out to the big oil companies long ago and now that oil is running out they want to postpone any move away from filling their pockets, |
3rd July 2008, 10:20 | #4 |
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fuck yeah, go truckies
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3rd July 2008, 10:39 | #5 | |
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Apparently Annette King and the trucking rep. had a good dustup on the radio this morning, so I doubt there'll be much of a backdown.
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Fucking alch up 5% as well! |
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3rd July 2008, 10:41 | #6 | |
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nz rail is shit, thats why it failed. end of shut the fuck up |
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3rd July 2008, 10:49 | #8 |
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All Diesel vehicle road user charges are a bit dodgy,including the car ruc's.
Most small diesel utes are about 50% dearer to register than the same size car. My Rodeo is $300 a yr to register and my cars are usually about $200, theres a lot more acc and other bs tax on my ute but Im not 50% more likely to have an accident in my ute than say one of my cars.I somehow doubt its more likely to burst into flames and do lots more damage than a petrol car.... I think most of the rego stuff is left over from yrs ago when basically all diesels on the road were trucks, and the government has adopted the "why alter it we are getting lots of free money" therory. RUC's Im not aware of anyother country that has a separate tax on diesel, it should be on the pump anyway .... Im pretty sure the new ruc's only apply to trucks over 3 ton ? |
3rd July 2008, 10:50 | #9 | |
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STN: "they say" isn't a fact. Research conducted for the Road Transport Forum indicates that road user charges for vehicles over six tonnes make up on average 10 per cent of transport operators’ direct costs. This would mean that an 11per cent increase in road user charges would have an approximately 1 per cent increase in total operating costs. Therefore, these increases to road user charges are not likely to result in significant increases to freight cartage rates. Last edited by FaTBoB : 3rd July 2008 at 10:54. |
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3rd July 2008, 10:57 | #10 |
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#same "Road Transport Forum" the herald quotes as saying "couldn't come at a worse time".. selective quoting, not very balanced reporting is it.
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3rd July 2008, 11:01 | #11 |
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One thing i'd like to know, is if the Herald has become a crock of shit recently. Or has it always been this fucked up and bias? I've noticed how blatently bias it is over the past few years. But before then I didn't really notice, but I wasn't really thinking about it.
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3rd July 2008, 11:07 | #12 |
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I think its become worse over this last election cycle.
Did they not say that the last time they raised the RUC was 17-20 years ago. So they have had it pretty good. You should expect most things to go up with inflation. So at 17 years at 2% = 34% (and thats on the small side), so no complaints. (edit, this may not be true. There may have at least been one last year and may be more) Obviously not giving them notice when they said they would is a problem Last edited by blynk : 3rd July 2008 at 11:12. |
3rd July 2008, 11:36 | #13 |
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blynk, its more like 2% per year, compound. not sure how much that works out to be, but sounds like a lot. just correcting you
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they (NZ Herald Staff) didnt get the tax cuts they wanted, id wager
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3rd July 2008, 11:46 | #15 |
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Something I'd heard that the older chaps might be able to confirm...
Back before Carless days, there was supposedly a facility for getting back the RUC on normal petrol if you were going to use it for something other than a road vehicle - ie lawnmower, chainsaw, dunebuggy, farm vehicles etc When Carless days were abolished, they didn't reinstate this facility. So to this end, the government has been taxing fuel incorrectly ever since Muldoon. |
3rd July 2008, 11:52 | #16 |
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3rd July 2008, 13:04 | #17 | |
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3rd July 2008, 13:48 | #18 | |
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So at 2%, it would end up at about 40% with compounding. I have a big concern is that a lot more people are become Anti current government (like in Oz), and all of a sudden National is going to get in by a landslide. Then a couple months down the track, we will start to see how bad National is. However I do believe that the Labour government can't stay in another term, unless they have a major cull at the top, and get rid off about half of their top of list members. I will probably be voting for a minor party this year, to balance out Nationals governing. |
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3rd July 2008, 14:03 | #19 |
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That's half the problem with the current government though blynk, they have to ball cradle the small parties and pass rediculous shit just to get their own bills passed. If National get in alone they will have a chance of making some ground, if they have to get the support of the fairy green bitch and the WINZ party bitch at every turn then were fucked again
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3rd July 2008, 14:20 | #20 |
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one mans ridiculous shit is another mans important issue tbh.
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3rd July 2008, 14:31 | #21 | |
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I don't want them to be able to just say, this is happening, and its done. I don't want privatisation, or cutting services to pay for tax cuts etc. Sure, sometimes thats a good thing to govern alone. Most times its probably not. Imagine the crap Labour could have done this term if they were a majority. |
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3rd July 2008, 15:14 | #22 |
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Will be hitting the (04) as follows:
http://www.police.govt.nz/news/release.html?id=4076 Trucks leaving from Seaview and Paekakariki at 07:00, going through The Terrace / Terrace Tunnel, onto Vivian St, onto Taranaki St, down the Quays, then up Whitmore St to Parliment, and from there "dispersing" (eg scattering everywhere making it even harder to navigate through town)
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3rd July 2008, 15:14 | #23 |
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good point blynk. we all see the shit that their 2.1 sided system in the states does them. 4-8 years of veto'd crap. id say if more people cared about the independant candidates, some of whom are excellent potential presidents, it wouldnt be such a fucked up place.
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3rd July 2008, 15:18 | #25 |
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good opportunity for some fatties to walk to work.
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3rd July 2008, 15:21 | #26 |
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Watch it skinny, or I'll sit on you!
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3rd July 2008, 15:56 | #27 | |
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I guess you'll avoid returning for another post so that you don't advertise your stupidity further, with the vain hope that members will forget about your flame tactics in other threads that you seek to denigrate with your "contributions". |
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3rd July 2008, 16:11 | #28 |
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What I don't understand is why we're trying to penalise those that use diesel at the moment, shouldn't we be trying to encourage it?
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3rd July 2008, 16:56 | #29 |
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Routes for all effected areas:
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/425823/1887111
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3rd July 2008, 16:58 | #30 | |
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3rd July 2008, 17:01 | #31 |
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PS: I also have the phone-numbers for the organisers if anyone's interested - email me off-forum
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3rd July 2008, 17:12 | #32 |
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why?
"fuck u faggots lol!!! pics or it didnt happen *click*" |
3rd July 2008, 17:19 | #33 |
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Well, if you really insist, yeah, why not? Just remember anything abusive IS legally actionable.
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3rd July 2008, 17:25 | #34 | |
SLUTS!!!!!!!
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3rd July 2008, 19:47 | #35 |
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Hmm, VOIP call bomb to the organiser's cellphone?
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3rd July 2008, 20:20 | #36 |
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Im sitting in Wellington airport Koru Lounge ... surrounded by around 20 MP's ... they are are and have been, cracking jokes about the truckies for the last 30 minutes.
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3rd July 2008, 20:32 | #37 |
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C.W. McCall owns me...
Uh, Breaker One-Nine, this here's the Rubber Duck
You got a copy on me Pig-Pen? C'mon Uh, yeah 10-4 Pig Pen, fer sure, fer sure By golly it's clean clear to Flag-Town, C'mon Uh, yeah, that's a big 10-4 Pig-Pen, Yeah, we definitely got us the front door good buddy, Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy Was the dark of the moon, on the sixth of June In a Kenworth, pullin' logs Cabover Pete with a reefer on And a Jimmy haulin' hogs We 'as headin' fer bear on I-One-Oh 'Bout a mile outta Shaky-Town I sez Pig-Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck An' I'm about to put the hammer on down Cause we gotta little ol' convoy, rockin' through the night Yeah we gotta little ol' convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight? Come on an' join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna git in our way We're gonna roll this truckin' convoy, cross the USA Convoy... Convoy... Uh, breaker Pig-Pen, this here's The Duck Uh, you wanna back off them hogs 10-4, 'bout five mile or so, 10-roger Them hogs is gittin' in-tense up here By the time we got into Tulsa-Town We had eighty-five trucks in all But they's a road block up on the clover leaf An' them bears 'as wall to wall Yeah them smokies 'as thick as bugs on a bumper They even had a bear-in-the-air I sez callin' all trucks, this here's The Duck We about to go a huntin' bear Cause we gotta great big convoy, rockin' through the night Yeah we gotta great big convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight? Come on an' join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna git in our way We're gonna roll this truckin' convoy, cross the USA Convoy... Convoy... Uh, you wanna give me a 10-9 on that Pig-Pen? Uh, negatory Pig-Pen, yer still too close Yeah, them hogs is startin' close up my sinuses Mercy sakes, you better back off another ten Well we rolled up interstate fourty-four Like a rocket sled on rails We tore up all a our swindle sheets An' left 'em settin' on the scales By the time we hit that Chi-Town Them bears was a gittin' smart They'd brought up some reinforcements From the Illinois National Guard There 'as armored cars, and tanks, and Jeeps An' rigs of every size Yeah them chicken coops 'as full a bears An' choppers filled the skies Well we shot the line, an' we went for broke With a thousand screamin' trucks And eleven long-haired friends of Jesus In a chartreusse microbus Hey Sod Buster, listen You wanna put that microbus in behind the suicide jockey? Yeah, he's haulin dynamite He needs all the help he can git Well we laid a strip fer the Jersey Shore An' prepared to cross the line I could see the bridge 'as lined with bears But I didn't have a doggone dime I sez Pig-Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck We just ain't a gonna pay no toll So we crashed the gate doin' ninety-eight I sez, let them truckers roll, 10-4 Cause we gotta mighty convoy, rockin' through the night Yeah we gotta mighty convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight? Come on an' join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna git in our way We're gonna roll this truckin' convoy, cross the USA Convoy... Convoy... Uh, 10-4 Pig-Pen, what's yer 20? Omaha?! Well they oughta know what to do with them hogs out there fer sure Well mercy sakes alive good buddy We gonna back on outta here So keep the bugs off yer glass An' the bears off yer... tail We gonna catch ya on the flip-flop This here's the Rubber Duck on the side We gone Bye, Bye... |
3rd July 2008, 20:45 | #38 | |
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that's not the angle to take on it- this is about user pays.. which seems to be a pretty popular concept when it falls on the powerless. as a nation we spend a huge amount of our revenue on roads- some of us use them to get to work to continue lining the pockets of the owners of capital, some of us receive an income via the use of publicly funded infrastructure- people are currently spewing about money going into rail- 'money pit' they say- did god pull roads out've his arse on the seventh day or something?
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