About 100 disgruntled lorry drivers and other motorists took part in a go-slow fuel protest on the M6.
Up to 80 lorries, along with vans, cars, motorbikes and a caravan, set off at 9am under police escort from Lymm Services at Warrington, Cheshire to Carnforth, 60 miles north in Lancashire.
Tony Burridge, who organised the protest, said he believed the demonstration was the biggest go-slow fuel protest on the motorway since the first fuel demonstrations began in 2000.
Mr Burridge, 50, a logistics manager from Preston, said: "We are hoping the strength of feeling shown during today's go-slow will persuade the Government to reduce fuel duty.
"I am confident that if enough people take a stand the Government will realise that the rising cost of fuel is intolerable for ordinary working people and their families."
Mr Burridge, who works for Valera, a commercial cooking and refrigeration equipment company, added: "It is not just hauliers who are facing hardship and having to make cut backs and redundancies.
"Looking at the line up of vehicles and people who have turned out today you can see that the high cost of fuel is hurting people in all walks of life.
"Today's go-slow wasn't organised by a professional organisation, it was organised by myself and my friends because we felt we should show support to our friends who are suffering."
In Hampshire about 100 tractors, farm vehicles and lorries embarked on a go-slow fuel protest through the New Forest.
The convoy set off under police escort from Stoney Cross just after 10am, travelling towards junction one of the M27, before joining the A31 at Ringwood.
