Ah but it would have affected you. It would have impacted in everyone in greater manc and beyond, whether u drove a truck or a trike.It's so nice working from home and not having to worry about all this bullshit.
To be fair, that’s a good thing anyway even if this is scrapped.We've just spent 50k on changing 2 of our vans to Euro 6s oh joy.
Oddly enough mate, on my truck, the emissions cost was £270 per annum, I only did about 2/3,000 miles a year in it, so in the grand scheme of things not that much, but when I came to look at normal cars to replace it, there were a shitload, not affected by the change, but were upwards of £500 a year, made me question the logic in it tbh.This has been a great source of worry and anxiety for me, as a sole trader im not in a position to just go and buy a newer van.
my 6 year old van that has only 70k on the clock, passes its emissions test each year , was supposed to last me approx 6 more years and then as part of a business plan i would replace with newer. For that reason alone, air will always get cleaner
I think it was all thought out by people who havent experienced life outside of politics . Was just easy to bill white van manOddly enough mate, on my truck, the emissions cost was £270 per annum, I only did about 2/3,000 miles a year in it, so in the grand scheme of things not that much, but when I came to look at normal cars to replace it, there were a shitload, not affected by the change, but were upwards of £500 a year, made me question the logic in it tbh.
To be fair to Burnham, all ten boroughs of Greater Manchester failed the World Health Organisation air pollution test figures back in the Autumn last year.Whilst I’m no fan of Burnham’s, isn’t this being driven by Central Government insisting we meet certain criteria for our air quality by 2024? What happens if we don’t?
it does seem a bit sledgehammer to crack a nut.
Im more than understanding that something had to be done but he totally got this wrong.To be fair to Burnham, all ten boroughs of Greater Manchester failed the World Health Organisation air pollution test figures back in the Autumn last year.
He had to do something but he chose a poorly thought out option.
Yep I'm glad we upgraded a couple of the vans and are fortunate enough to be able to afford it, got shut of one with the highest mileage, but we could have directed the money in other directions we really need to take extra site lads on as a priority and probably still will. What the annoying bit is it seems very little to do with cleaning up the air and more to do with draining a bit more off Joe Muggins while sat in an ivory dream world.To be fair, that’s a good thing anyway even if this is scrapped.