Give us the lowdown: FTA
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MORE MONEY should be spent on publicising the dangers of lorries hitting low bridges, says the Freight Transport Association.
It believes that, rather than tightening up the law, more could be achieved by stressing the need for careful route planning, driver height checking facilities, and more and better advance warnings of low bridges.
FTA has told the Department of Transport that it would be better for the maximum height at which a lorry is likely to operate to be shown inside the cab, rather than for it to be compulsory to measure a loaded vehicle several times a day.
And it says that this is better than a DTp proposal to increase the height to which measured height can be rounded up from one to three inches. That, says FTA, still leaves the problem of finding somewhere to measure the vehicle.