Weights must go up'
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,W ROW over maximum vehicle weights is brewing in the EEC following a new proposal for amunity-wide maximum of 44 tonnes and an increase in the size of vehicles.
d this week a delegation the British heavy vehicle try was due to meet EEC ials in an effort to get ;s moving on the whole tion of weights and diions.
'ormed sources told CM the meeting was to be in near-secret in Brussels that the message to the was clear: stop dragging feet and make a decision eights.
hide manufacturers have impatient for action on vhole question so that the 'e of design programmes ie finalised.
it any moves towards alising the weights rules certain to be opposed by .-.nvironmental lobby, not in Britain but also in ce, where the Civic Trust joined forces with a new movement to fight the progress of the heavy lorry.
During the second half of the year the EEC is also planning to monitor the capacity of the European road haulage industry and it will be aiming to combine modes of transport at EEC level.
It is thought that this will include such exercises as the German Kombiverkehr piggyback train service that was used to carry Middle Eastbound vehicles but is now discontinued.