REPORTAGE
At the moment when public transport is idling, motor carriers are starting to storm the macadam this Saturday almost everywhere in France: fifteen filter dams will be set up in eleven regions. The bosses of small and medium transport companies are angry against a possible revision of the tax on diesel from 1 January next: an increase of 2 cents per liter to finance road infrastructure. So we must expect a lot of traffic jams and slowdowns this Saturday on fifteen hot spots, especially in Brittany.
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Competition with foreign carriers
Fifty heavy goods vehicles and organize a dam filtering from 10 hours on the busy Nantes-Rennes, supposed to block only foreign trucks. "Two cents more is 700 euros more by truck.This can put at risk small businesses," says Stéphane Cauchy, secretary general of the OTRE of Brittany. What he says means "have to fire, sell trucks, distort competition with foreign carriers, they do not pay the same taxes!"
The two extra euro cents must also contribute to the financing of the energy transition. "For ten years we have made colossal efforts to reduce this CO2 impact.We have a hybrid truck, a small vehicle to make the last kilometers ... And behind that we will still tax ourselves?", Indignant Claude Rault , carrier to Pontivy.
"The situation is serious"
With the movement, the truckers warn: "We say to the government, 'pay attention, if we do not hear, there may be harder movements before Christmas'," insists Claude Rault. Among the options, "Block cities, or block a little further to the capital." The government must understand that the situation is serious.
On the axis Rennes-Nantes, traffic jams and slowdowns are predictable about twenty kilometers from Rennes, perhaps in both directions.