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Routeing out stuck trucks
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Somerset County Council is drawing up a list of routes that trucks should
avoid. Chris Tindall reports.
THE FREIGHT Transport Association (FTA) says it -cautiously welcomes' plans by Somerset County Council (SCC) to compile a list of routes it wants to prevent trucks driving down.
The council plans to send the list to hauliers and sat-nay system providers, such as Ordnance Survey, asking for them to remove the nominated roads and streets from their software packages. It hopes this will reduce the number of trucks that become stranded.
Ian Gallagher, the FTA's regional policy manager for the South-West, says the final listing will be handed to the FTA and the Road Haulage Association in case designated freight routes, such as A-roads, are also included. But he says in principle it is a good idea.
SCC has written to all parish and town councils requesting details of routes that councillors feel are unsuitable for LGVs.
Gallagher says: "In principle it sounds like a good idea. We will keep our eye on it to make sure local authorities are not using this as a back-door method to prevent LGVs from travelling through their villages. They promised us they will keep in contact and we expect nothing less."
An SCC spokeswoman says: "Somerset County Council contacted county councils across the country and discovered that 83% of the respondents had problems with LGVs using sat-nays.., we need to supply Ordnance Survey with our preferred routes, LG V restrictions and pinch points so these can be included as part of a dataset for sat-nay manufacturers"
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