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Under new city-centre parking charges, Manchester shoppers will have to pay £2.70 an hour starting next month. The increase is as high as 20% in some locations and completes a triple-whammy for motorists, after hearing earlier in the year that the local council planned to institute charges for on street parking on Sundays, something that never . . . → Read More: Up to £6.80 an hour parking for Manchester shoppers  A What Car magazine survey has found that drivers are being ripped off at motorway service stations in a number of ways. Fuel is more expensive at service stations by, on average, 5.2% for unleaded and 3.4% for diesel, meaning that drivers would pay £77 more each year if they filled up completely at these stations. A . . . → Read More: Its official, motorway service stations are a rip off It is possible to write off fuel expenses for travel in your private car is it is used for your work, just like hundreds of midwives, and uncountable thousands of business executives, and district nurses do regularly. Regardless, the tax-free limit has not been updated from 40 pence per mile, though petrol prices have rocketed at the . . . → Read More: Business car drivers being left behind by fuel prices and tax allowances Some economists have been disappointed in their expectations that new car sales would show a bit of a surge as buyers hurried to get ahead of the increase in VAT. The latest numbers from the SMMT (Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders) revealed that new car registrations in December 2010 were 18% below last year’s figure, . . . → Read More: Huge fall in December car sales, even before VAT hike A nationwide campaign by tyre leader Goodyear to promote its environmentally friendly EfficientGrip tyres will be launched on Tuesday 2 November in Gateshead. Goodyear is teaming up with five petrol stations across England to give motorists free petrol. The free £20 top up of unleaded or diesel fuel will be available for . . . → Read More: Free petrol opportunities in Goodyear EfficientGrip Tyre campaign Businesses and motoring groups are concerned after councils made plans to charge workers to park at their workplace. The Government has been asking the councils to seek out different ways of raising money, and it appears that this is the result. It seems that levies on workplace parking will not be banned, as was commonly thought when . . . → Read More: Business’s to be charged £250 to use their own parking spaces Every year about eight million parking tickets are given out, costing motorists around one billion pounds. The average fine for a parking ticket is £120 but if the violator pays the ticket within two weeks the ticket fine is cut in half to £60. However, those that are towed or caught by a clamper can face penalties . . . → Read More: Fighting parking fines is often worthwhile A new survey from the AA suggested that a few motoring issues may play a big role in the way people vote in the upcoming General Election. According to AA members, on the list of their top three concerns is the costs running and owning a car. Out of the nearly 15,000 that were surveyed, 53% stated . . . → Read More: Motoring concerns high on voters list of concerns As the General Election gets closer with the pound looking even worse against the dollar and import costs continuing to rise, Lord Mandelson has been attempting to get his opponents to stop making the currency look worse than it is. Petrol prices in particular are a sore issue for Lord Mandelson, as the poor condition of the . . . → Read More: Petrol prices at highest level ever Ministers are thinking about allowing councils to issue local parking tickets to violators of around £100. The Scottish Government stated that if the fine is increased from the normal £60 cap it may reduce the amount of parking that occurs illegally in congested areas, and help to better fund the costs of parking enforcement. The only areas that . . . → Read More: £100 council parking tickets |
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