Emotive Armitage
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CRITICISMS of the Armitage F port have been based on err live speculation regarding Ioi sizes, road damage and brid strengthening rather than any considered view of t facts.
These are the views of M colm Banks, group traffic ager of the Littlewoods Orga sation and a member of t national executive board of t Freight Transport Associatic Addressing the annual gene meeting of the Thames Vail Division of ETA in Oxford, I Banks said that environmen lobbyists should stop sugge ing they know more about ri ning lorries than transport mE' agers.
"A more develop( knowledge about the facts transport operation rather th bland assumptions will benE the Armitage debate. Even depth studies of the rep conducted by respected envirc mental groups have based number of conclusions on t incorrect assumption that trar port men do not know what best for efficient and econon operation," he asserted.
Views relating to empty ri ning are typical of where there this, refusal to accept that mc of it is inevitable, he said.
Transhipment depots are further example of how trar port managers have learn1 from experience of the econ rnic and environmental Fin tations, according to Mr Banks "There are problems regar ing the suitability of goods, pc sible damage and delays, cc increases and reductions of s( vice levels," he said.