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John Bell Transport manager Huntapac Produce Preston, Lancs John Bell
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shares the view that cameras can be an important deterrent, but only if they are used appropriately. That means reserving them for genuinely dangerous stretches of road, rather than sprinkling them like sugar across the country's transport network.
"In some cases, you might get a camera at the bottom of a steep hill," he says.
That means a lorry driver's got his foot on the brake all the way down and by the time he reaches the bottom he's got no brakes left or has to stop to let them cool down — just because there's a camera."
Another pet hate is cameras placed on dual carriageways. Trucks using these main routes when they are practically empty in the middle of the night face the same penalties as vehicles speeding in the rush hour.
Yet the risks are obviously much smaller, Bell believes. "There's a road near me with a sign that flashes a grumpy face if you're doing over 30mph and a great big smiley face if you're doing under that." "'It made me laugh when I saw it and I think people are much more likely to respond to something like that than a speed camera."