F111 slams NALC plan as 'misguide
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• The Freight Transport Association has dismissed the National Association of Local Councils' call for a national sys tern of compulsory lorry route as "misguided and unworkable (CM 17-23 Aug).
In a letter to the associatior the FTA's head of highways and traffic Don McIntyre says the NALC's ideas had been re jected as "costly, ineffective and impracticable" by the 1981 Armitage Report. The propos als for another tier of road classification with national lorr controls would achieve nothini of benefit, he says.
The Road Haulage Association has also slammed the NALC plans as "impracticable and not thought through".
The Transport and Road It( search Laboratory concluded i 1981 that each lorry restrictio in the UK costs industry 255,000 on average.