Mr. Eugene Drennan:

To enhance that, the companies go back to the old system of obtaining the discount, which is in the form of a coupon or book type of thing they issue. The haulier must go to the office to get it. The operators want hauliers to pay before they cross the toll and the hauliers must get a truck or registration-specific discount. It cannot be granted to a company and given out to whoever is crossing. It is quite old and cumbersome. It is given out under a caveat. We all have tags on our vehicles and the operators are paid before the hauliers actually cross the toll.

The system does not take cognisance of it. As there is a part of the contract that states the rebate must be done by token, operators think they have an out. If they had a collective case against hauliers, they would crush us. We need TII to step up and get the interpretation that they are paid before we cross and that we should have our discount.