Government should begin trial of longer, heavier freight vehicles
Date: 23 April 2008
The government should look into allowing longer, heavier freight vehicles on the UK's roads, a haulage group believes.
Bigger vehicles could allow haulage firms to make savings in terms of fuel consumption - which is particularly important at the moment when oil prices are at such a high level.
Now the Freight Transport Association (FTA) has argued that the UK should begin trials of longer, heavier goods trucks in order to weigh up their benefit to the economy.
Writing to secretary of state Ruth Kelly, FTA chief executive Theo de Pencier said: "FTA recognises the impact higher capacity goods vehicles could have on the rail freight market, but the opportunities to reduce fuel consumption and carbon emissions by up to 30 per cent and mileage reductions of up to 50 per cent from existing road based movements mean that these fears alone should not be the basis for dismissing out of hand such a significant means of savings."
Kelly has said that she would need a "lot of persuasion" to allow the larger freight vehicles on Britain's roads.
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