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Beating blizzards

10th January 1991
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

• Britain's two leading road transport associations have given the Government their recommendations on how to avoid a repeat of the snowstorm chaos last month, which left truck drivers stranded for up to 30 hours (CM 6-12 December 1990).

They are demanding more funding for road maintenance; a central register of winter maintenance equipment to be held by highway authorities; aid from the armed forces; and more news bulletins.

The Freight Transport Association, which has surveyed hundreds of its members, says that snow clearing vehicles stood idle when they were needed a few miles away.

The Road Haulage Association says: "It was most disheartening for drivers that a key part of the motorway network was closed for 36 hours." II A Turkish driver was killed in Manchester when gales blew his lorry into the Manchester ship canal at Stretford.

And in Cheshire, HGV driver Paul Coatsworth had a close shave when his lorry, owned by MCM Supplies of Grange Town, Middlesbrough, was blown on to the edge of the Thelwall Viaduct.