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Longer trucks pose a threat on urban and minor roads

Philippa Edmunds
14 October 2016
 

The road haulage industry, and not society, is the primary beneficiary of these 7ft longer trucks (LTT 30 Sep). Already, existing HGVs pay only pay 30% of their crash, congestion, road damage and pollution costs with the taxpayer picking up the bill. Longer semi-trailers (LSTs) will not change the scale of this subsidy.

But, most worryingly, these 7ft longer HGVs are totally unsuitable for many urban roads on safety grounds and yet the Government is not currently restricting where they can go...

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