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Hazardous loads
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The problem, the advice, the cure
• MPs are increasing the pressure on the Government to take further measures to improve the safety of tankers and lorries carrying dangerous substances.
Mr Simon Mahon, Labour, Bootle, is to ask the Minister for Transport Industries to introduce a "colour code" to warn drivers that vehicles are carrying dangerous loads.
Tankers would be painted vivid colours to denote various types of acid, caustic soda, etc.
Mr Mahon argues that this would help the police and fire authorities to quickly identify substances carried by lorries involved in accidents even if printed markings were destroyed.
Mr Alan Fitch, Labour, Wigan, is to ask the Home Secretary for a statement on his plans for improving safety regulations for lorries carrying chemicals.
Mr Gordon Oakes, Labour, Widnes, is to ask Mr Peyton to refer the whole question to the Transport and Road Research Laboratory for investigation and he wants the Government to start negotiations with European countries for a uniform standard code for marking vehicles with symbols.
One answer to the problem Comes from the Bulk Liquid Group for the RHA which is to set up a working party to consider measures for preventing accidents involving tanker vehicles and ensuring that the necessary action is taken when an accident does occur.
The members of the working party are Mr E. W. Tomlinson (Arrow Bulk Carriers Ltd); Mr N. K. Birchall (Gilbraith Tankers Ltd) and Mr T. R. Wood (Midland Road Tank Services Ltd).
It is planned to draw up a code of practice for the carriage and handling of dangerous materials, as well as a scheme for training drivers to observe the code. Where appropriate, recommendations will be drafted and submitted to the Government department concerned.
[See article on hazardous loads on page 761 Partly as a result of public concern and anxiety about the road transport of dangerous cargoes, P and 0 Road Services has decided to link up with Freightliners for the long-distance transport of liquid cargoes by rail.
Called Tankliner, the new service was started as a pilot scheme six months ago and already acids and low-flash inflammable liquids are being transported by containers which are delivered by road from chemical and petroleum plants throughout the country to the nearest Freightliner rail terminal. The cargoes then travel to their destinations by regular container trains.
P and 0 claims that besides being flexible, reliable, and swift a greater margin of safety is possible because the dangerous loads are transported by road over the shortest possible distance.
P and O's transport subsidiaries operate more than 2000 tractive units and trailers, all of which are based near major industrial centres.