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DfT announces drive for more longer lorries to be trialled on the roads

Lee Baker
15 September 2013
Hammond: believes trial allows
Hammond: believes trial allows "transporting [of] more goods more efficiently"

 

More freight operators are being invited to join a 10-year trial enabling them to use longer goods vehicles on UK roads, transport minister Stephen Hammond has announced.

When it was launched last year, the government’s longer semi-trailer trial enabled freight operators to bid for a share of 1,800 vehicle allocations, but so far around 1,250 allocations remain unused.

The DfT will now allow further operators not in the trial to use the unused allocations and put 1,250 more longer lorries...

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