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BRITISH commercial vehicles above 3.5 tonnes gross vehicle weight carried 1,216m tonnes in 1982, according to the International Road Transport Union (IRU).
This Geneva-based organisation's figures are available in the fourth edition of World Transport Data.
This figure is 133m tonnes down on the 1980 figure of 1,349m.
The amounts carried reveal the split between hire or reward and own-account totals. They were: 1980, hire or reward 677m tonnes, own-account 672m; 1981, 655m and 615m; 1982, 604m and 612m.
The total tonne-kilometre figures were: 1980, 93.2bn; 1981, 94.4bn; and 1982 89.2bn. The hire or reward proportion of these last three amounts were 57.1bn, 58.5bn and 55.9bn.
The 1982 British vehicle park was: 1.7m freight vehicles; 68,000 buses and coaches; 15.7m cars; 43,000 taxis; and 816,000 other vehicles.
A table gives the 1982 total of goods vehicles in Britain as 1.7m. Of these 1.1m were not over 1.5 tonnes; 143,000 were 1.5 to 3 tonnes; 344,000 over three tonnes.
"Agricultural vans and lorries" numbered 86,000 and "haulage tractors" 6,000.