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19/06/2008
Truckers To Meet Minister Over Fuel Crisis
Representatives of the Irish Road Haulage Association (IRHA) are to meet the Transport Minister Noel Dempsey to discuss rising fuel prices.
Truckers are threatening to mount strike action at the end of this month unless measures are introduced to ease the pressures being caused by rising diesel prices.
The IRHA says spiralling prices are causing rebellion across Europe and Mr Dempsey should have an interest in sorting out the problem in Ireland before it gets out of control.
Last week a spokesman for the IRHA said without that before the meeting was agreed, truckers were looking at what he called a 'doomsday scenario' involving the blockade of ports.
Truckers say they can no longer continue to absorb the extra expense and that they need a surcharge.
Truckers throughout Europe are also complaining about the cost of fuel, with drivers in Spain blockading their capital Madrid in a day of national strike.
In Catalonia, northern Spain, where last week half the gas stations ran out of fuel, local police gave trucks bringing fresh fuel supplies an armed escort.
(DW)
Truckers are threatening to mount strike action at the end of this month unless measures are introduced to ease the pressures being caused by rising diesel prices.
The IRHA says spiralling prices are causing rebellion across Europe and Mr Dempsey should have an interest in sorting out the problem in Ireland before it gets out of control.
Last week a spokesman for the IRHA said without that before the meeting was agreed, truckers were looking at what he called a 'doomsday scenario' involving the blockade of ports.
Truckers say they can no longer continue to absorb the extra expense and that they need a surcharge.
Truckers throughout Europe are also complaining about the cost of fuel, with drivers in Spain blockading their capital Madrid in a day of national strike.
In Catalonia, northern Spain, where last week half the gas stations ran out of fuel, local police gave trucks bringing fresh fuel supplies an armed escort.
(DW)
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