THE GREEN FACTOR
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tveco's Martin Bach iiJilks that the publication of carbon footprints might encourage van operators to move up. "If you start looking at CO2 emissions in grammes per tonne-kilometre, you can see the benefit."
But Andy Boyle, Road Haulage Association chairman and MD of Palletline member ABE Il_edbury, is emphatic that this works both ways. "I still have one 7.5-tonner," he says, "and it's my imbitori to have none. I run three 15-tonners and a 13-tonner they look identical to the 7.5-tonner, d with 20ft bodies they have virtually the same footprint. Sc effectively I have several '7.5-tanners' ith a payload of 7.5 tonnes, as opposed to a 'proper' 7.5-tanner with a payload of 2.5 tonnes." But surely there are plenty of areas restricted to 7.5 tonnes? "Nearly every limit says 7.5 tonnes except for access," says Boyle.