Berry’s Coaches, which runs five services from the South West to London every day, said its costs have risen by \u00a3750,000 this year due to climbing fuel prices. <\/p>\n
James Berry said it has had “a big impact”, but he was confident the company could “weather the storm” as it had done before in its 100-year history.<\/p>\n
“We’ve absorbed a lot of that cost ourselves but unfortunately we’ve had to apply fuel surcharges across a number of our services – a \u00a32 surcharge on each leg of the journey to London,” he said.<\/p>\n
“The government have delayed the rise in fuel duty but relatively that’s quite a small impact – it will go up by 5p at some point by 2027.<\/p>\n
“Really what we would like to see if further fuel duty cuts. That would be a huge benefit from the industry.”<\/p>\n
Chancellor John Healey said he was “very conscious” of people being hit by spiralling fuel prices caused by international factors. <\/p>\n
He said he was “glad” to have frozen fuel duty until the end of the year and brought ‘fuel finder’ apps to help people find the cheapest petrol stations. <\/p>\n
“I’m very aware as I prepare the budget – I’ll deliver it a month today – that this needs to be a breathing space budget, recognising the cost of living and the cost of business pressures,” he said at the Labour Party Conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Berry’s Coaches, which runs five services from the South West to London every day, said its costs have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":915312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-915311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}