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7th July 1978, Page 41
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Keywords : Lorry, Wagons, Truck, Bies, Haulage

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ick Ross and Mike Loveridge, CM's staff lotographers, cover about 40,000 miles ich year. They tell some tales about badly aded vehicles, so we asked them for proof and this is it.

HE MI is closed below iction 100 due to a heavy ry shedding its load. The id will be closed for two urs, diversions are in operan."

chat all-too-familiar type of ,ssage does more harm to id transport that all the Taganda of the anti-lorry bies.

klmost as damaging is the pression the public form en travelling behind or ;sing a badly secured load. either case the industry has only itself to blame — sheeting and roping a load is in the hands of the operator or more correctly his driver. There is no excuse for some of the horrific examples we encountered during the past two weeks.

To avoid embarrassment identification marks have been obliterated on the rogue vehicles. They have been left on those vehicles which are a credit to the industry.

The photographs represent large and small haulage and own-account operators.