No Overloading Record
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1\ AR. MARPLES reminded M.P.s this in week that a scheme was being worked out for prescribing authorized gross weights for individual goods vehicles.
He was answering Mr. Peter Emery (Tory, Reading), who had asked what progress the Minister had made in rectifying the problems of the overloading of heavy lorries. Mr. Emery also wanted to know what record Mr. Marples had of this overloading and was told there was none. Present regulations, pointed out the Minister, did not lay down maximum loads for individual vehicles.
Mr. Emery also asked about Ministerial action to stop undue delays on the roads caused by exceptionally wide, heavy or cumbersome loads.
He was told that last year the Minister had made regulations which imposed new restrictions on the movement by road of abnormal loads. Under these regulations, said Mr. Marples, a due balance was being kept between the needs of industry and the avoidance of undue delay to other traffic.