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lean-up urged by !too researchers
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by Guy Sheppard Luliens are being urged to clean up their vehicles :er researchers found that children living within m of main roads are nearly twice as likely to suffrom asthma as those living further away.
The researchers from Nottingham University y particulates from diesel exhausts appear to Ike wheezing worse among young asthma suf-ers, particularly if they are girls at primary hoot
The study, carried out in Nottingham, was blished in the American Journal of ispiratory and Critical Care Medicine and hlighted by TransportAction, the governmentcked campaign to reduce the damaging pacts of transport. TransportAction okesman Martyr Pring ys that although larger uliers and distribution Impanies are increas;ly willing to 'green" .1ir fleets, this research ould be a warning to all _uliers to clean up their now before being reed to by legislation.
We understand that argins are tight, particarly among smaller ,uliers and owner drirs," he says. "But iestions of social responsibility will become more and more important as we begin to think in wider terms such as having low-emission zones. The overall legislative framework for commercial vehicles entering large urban areas may soon be different"
Over the past 15 months TransportAction has handed out more than 300 grants, paying up to 75% of the costs of fining particulate traps or converting diesels to gas.
Among the recipients was Oldham-based owner-driver John Heathcote, who got 22,679 towards the cost of a particulate trap or his lowloader. "I'd always thought that grants were only for companies with big fleets," he says. "I couldn't have afforded to pay the total amount myself:" • See Industry News Extra, page 12.