Sunday, 17 November 2013

The French lorry drivers say a definite NO to the eco tax

Between 2,000 and 4,000 freight trucks Saturday closed off major French highways and slowed traffic to a crawl on nine roadways to protest a proposed environmental tax on heavy loads.
France’s Socialist government in late October suspended the tax, which initially was the focus of numerous protests in the region of Brittany, where opponents donned red caps in a series of demonstrations that sometimes erupted into violence and vandalism against the still-unused payment kiosks.