People fear lorries'
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ESENT trends of freight distribution must be reversed for the gl of the environment, Transport 2000's Nick Lester told the DM/GLC conference.
[e said that figures backed Us claim that lorries are too ;y, too smelly, and are too vy for the good of roads, added: "Most important of s that people still fear lor r Lester rejected the RHA FTA claim that we cannot rd environmental protec, and believed that road ;ht operators are not as omical as they say. He said that operators are prepared to work vehicles over much greater distances than in the past, partly through the centralisation of production centres.
Mr Lester stated that the utilisation factor for 32tonners dropped from 11.5 to 10.7 tonnes between 1973 and 1978.
"What hotel could survive if it was only averaging half full. and getting worse?" he said.