Manchester Low Emission Zone

hammocity said:
If the business can afford it that’s good practice anyway but grants were going to be available with details being sent this month, may jumped the gun a bit there.

However, an Auto Electrician I know who is knowledgeable about these things reckons Van will be increasingly more expensive this year so you have probably made the right decision.
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We can afford it at the moment not sure about the grant situation but it's just a bit annoying if they were really serious about cleaning the air ban all trucks vans and cars from the area and see out that goes, but no if you've got a tenner you can pump as much crap in the air as you want.
 
My van is on the road 300 days a year roughly. So about 3 grand extra I have to find in the business. Unfortunately some of that will have to go on the customers bill.

Absolute fucking pisstake.
 
Nick_1985 said:
My van is on the road 300 days a year roughly. So about 3 grand extra I have to find in the business. Unfortunately some of that will have to go on the customers bill.

Absolute fucking pisstake.
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Ask Manchester33, he may subside you.
The disparity is ridiculous, for example:

Courier van doing 1000 miles per week around GM, £50

Decorator’s van doing 50 miles per week, £50.

In Birmingham it’s City Centre only, exemptions for the lower paid, earn less than 30k per year net, exempt.

Also, off thread but, small businesses go on Making Tax Digital for VAT shortly, I complete manually at the moment. I’ll either have to get the Accountant to do it or buy a monthly accounts package, either way that’s another £300-£600 pa.
 
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Maybe I missed it but I wasn’t aware this was only a temporary thing until they reached the required standards, was that always the case or is it Burnham backtracking ?
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
Doesn’t that make it a £1,500 pick up truck?
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Depends which part of the country you’re driving it in ?

I asked further up, since when was this supposedly only a temporary measure ? I’ve looked through quite a bit of literature now and nowhere seems to be saying it was only temporary until levels reach the required standard, and even if that is the case, what happens then, I can’t imagine they’d be telling us one week we could drive through a CAZ when the levels were low and not be charged then the next week we will ?
 
Dirty Harry said:
Depends which part of the country you’re driving it in ?

I asked further up, since when was this supposedly only a temporary measure ? I’ve looked through quite a bit of literature now and nowhere seems to be saying it was only temporary until levels reach the required standard, and even if that is the case, what happens then, I can’t imagine they’d be telling us one week we could drive through a CAZ when the levels were low and not be charged then the next week we will ?
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I’d assume once it’s in, it would be here to stay.

Some CAZ cities have alternating days, so they could do that too. Doubtful though. They’ll want to maximise their profit potential, no doubt.
 
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