Usk ban
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A WELSH coroner has told his court that it is essential that vehicles over three tons be banned from Usk and the surrounding district following an accident in which a lorry and a car were involved. Both the occupants of the car were killed.
Col Kenneth Treasure added: "This must outweigh the objections of road haulage interests."
And already both Freight Transport Association and Road Haulage Association objections to the plan have been received on the grounds that the ban will cost an extra E150,000 in drivers' hours and fuel.
The objections have been lodged on the grounds that the coming EEC drivers' hours legislation will mean that the time taken on alternative routes would result in extra overnight stops for drivers.
Now both associations are to be asked to monitor the extra costs involved in the ban over a six-month trial period.