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LN EXPERIMENT aimed at keeping lorry drivers on the right racks has been launched in Gloucester.
Five information panels ave been put in lay-bys on all ie main roads approaching "ty.
They tell hgv drivers where rie main industrial estates are, rhich roads are weight rest.cted and where diesel outlets re.
And the panels also include ifomation on lorry parks, dice and fire stations, and .c.(:)*rimended routes for unu„tally large loads.
A county council spokesIan said, "They should assist wry drivers who are unfamilr with the city and lessen the eed for such drivers to stop at laces where their vehicles ause inconvenience and bstruction to other road sers.
"If successful, it is hoped to Ktend the scheme to other iwr s in Gloucestershire.
"The information panels iemselves have been degned in consultation with the olice and the haulage inustry and consist of a map of ie main highway network of city on a grid base — with the location of principal industrial sites.” The five locations of the information panels are the A40 at Over, the A38 at Twigworth, the A40 Golden Valley Bypass, the A417 Barnwood Bypass and the A38 Southern Connector.