Britain wants truckers to be able to pick up and drop off goods in and between EU countriesProgress on a Brexit deal is being threatened by Brussels’s refusal to grant British truckers wide-ranging access to the EU, as formal talks resume today. Negotiators are expected to clash on the future of the haulage industry after it was reported that the European Commission rejected a British request for trucking access as “fundamentally unbalanced”. Britain wants truckers to be able to continue picking up and dropping off goods inside and between EU countries. In return it has offered the right for EU trucks to travel to Ireland via the UK. Brussels has rejected the proposal, however, on the basis that it is too similar to granting access to the EU’s single

Source: The Times August 18, 2020 23:15 UTC