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Although not connected with road haulage, I would like to comment on the latest fanatical outburst by the Civic Trust re the proposed 30-mile radius curtailment of light vans (CM February 24).
One has become used to the constant attacks on the heavy lorry, but when the searchlight is turned on the innocuous light van, it presents very sinister implications.
I seem to remember in the recent CM/Council for the Preservation of Rural
England /Civic Trust/etc. round table discussion that the latter organisation was not interested in the light/medium cv in relation to the environment.
The obsession with freight increase, linked as it is with growth and prosperity, would appear to have political connotations rather than being wholly environmental.
In our over-populated, financially embarrassed little island, if people do not produce and distribute goods, what are the alternatives?
While, of course, we must be concerned with our environment. I do not think the suppression of the cv will bring Utopia, especially when one thinks of atomic bomb fallout, Concorde, exhaust emissions from 13 million cars, etc. NIGEL MALLETT, Truro, Cornwall.