Ontario Truckers Want Metrolinx Taxes to Go to Improve Roads and BridgesOntario Trucking Association (OTA) is objecting to the proposal from Metrolinx for a special 5-cent a litre tax on diesel fuel to help pay for the regional transportation agency's $20 billion transit plan for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area.
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"The trucking industry believes in paying its fair share for the infrastructure it uses. However, Metrolinx is a transit plan; it does not address the equally compelling need to maintain and upgrade the region's or the province's network of roads, highways and bridges," says OTA's president and CEO, David Bradley.
Instead, OTA's position is that tax revenues generated from commercial diesel fuel taxes and heavy truck registration fees should be allocated to a dedicated provincial trust fund specifically for roads, highways and bridges.
"That's where the trucking industry's fuel tax dollars should be going," Bradley says. "Truckers should not be expected to pay for transit. Unlike motorists who have a choice in terms of whether to drive or take transit, truckers have no such choice."
In addition, truckers are already smarting from a 70-per cent increase in commercial plate fees announced by the McGuinty government last year. "No other sector has been subjected to such an increase in user fees," Bradley claims.
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