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Commission considers relaxing restrictions on longer lorries

30 March 2012
Longer lorries: rule change?
Longer lorries: rule change?

 

The European Commission said this week it would reflect on its plan to relax restrictions on longer lorries after MEPs voiced fears about the safety and infrastructure cost implications of their widespread use.

The Commission had been planning to ‘reinterpret’ a 1996  directive on lorry dimensions to allow use of 25.25 metre-long lorries on cross-border traffic between member states.

Such an action would not automatically lead to the introduction of the vehicles on the...

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