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The BVRLA has called on Transport for London to target drivers rather than leasing firms - as planned under proposed new legislation - when imposing fines on cars using cyclists' stopping areas in the capital.
A BVRLA spokesman hit out at "yet another administrative burden on the business car sector; exactly what the industry does not need at the moment".
Drivers straying or "encroaching into the special advanced stopping boxes set aside for cyclists at busy junctions" would be penalised should the legislation be approved, according to the London Local Authorities and Transport for London (number two) Bill.
The BVRLA's spokesman was worried that the London congestion charge legislation, which doesn't automatically allow firms to transfer liability to drivers on contracts over six months, should not apply to this new 'safety' regulation.
The spokesman added: "We have to pay and recharge it and add an administration fee. It would be very much simpler to transfer liability, which is the case with speeding and parking offences. That costs us some money but at least we don't have to pay the fine."
John Lewis (pictured), the BVRLA's director general, said: "Whatever will the Mayor think of next to raise revenue? Cameras on the Thames to catch speeding boats?"
Meanwhile, the Conservative shadow transport secretary, Theresa Villiers, has questioned whether the Government was using fixed-penalty speeding notices to raise revenue rather than make roads safer after the number issued trebled since Labour took office.
She said that cracking down on uninsured drivers should form part of a rethink on improving road safety.
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