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Don’t let rail freight lobby thwart road freight efficiencies

Jack Semple, Director of policy, Road Haulage Association Ltd, Weybridge, Surrey KT13
17 May 2013
 

Can I clarify for your readers the issue of 25.25 metre trucks, on which pressure group Freight on Rail commented in a recent issue (‘EU rethinks lorry designs’ LTT 19 Apr)?

The European Commission has given guidance permitting these vehicles to move between EU member states, where both countries agree. It has done so, within proposed revisions to a Directive on vehicle design, purely because the European Parliament would not accept a written view from the Commission as to the...

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