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MALCOLM MILLARD MGM Haulage Flextord, Southampton One simple road safety
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measure, Millard says, would be to routinely weigh all trucks entering the UK he believes that overloading is a serious issue.
"A lot of foreign lorries run on two or three axles," he points out. They are always overloaded and that causes bad handling. In Portsmouth, something like eight out of 10 trucks coming off ferries are overloaded, Malcolm Millard "Then they get an the road and they dip and sway because they are out of balance. Compulsory weighing would be a great improvement in road safety."
And the one thing he'd like scrapped? Speed cameras where they do more harm than good: "Especially the ones on dual carriageways or non-residential roads. For example. on one stretch of the A303 there is a steep hill with a camera at the bottom. That means no vehicle can approach the hill at over 40mph.
If they were allowed to do 45 or 50mph, it would reduce all the congestion there. Unless its a really bad accident black spot I think that speed cameras should be scrapped."