Council looks to bar hauliers from smaller rural roads
Date: 30 October 2007
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Somerset County Council is looking to discourage freight haulage drivers from using certain roads in the area.
The council is putting together a list of certain streets in the county that are not suitable for use by HGVs, which could then be removed from the satellite navigation systems used by truck drivers to find their way around, the Weston & Somerset Mercury reports.
The aim is to make sure large haulage vehicles do not use inappropriate smaller rural roads, with the information also contained on a new website.
"This exercise is part of a wider program of work to provide hauliers with better routing information in order to allow them to choose more suitable routes," said a council spokesman.
"We are hoping to set up a pioneering new database which can be used by HGV-specific satellite navigation systems."
However, Cheddar Parish Council chairman Peter Lythgoe expressed reservations, saying: "I support the idea of collecting all this information but if lorries have to travel further out of their way to deliver their goods then prices in the shops could go up."
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