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• The barriers may be brought down to stop extra heavy foreign lorries entering this countr3.
Mr John Peyton, the Minister for Transport Industries, said last week that he was considering whether further steps should be taken to prevent infringement of the weight limit by these vehicles, and he hoped to make a statement soon.
Mr Peyton pointed out that the regulations setting a gross weight limit of 32 tons applied equally to British and foreign vehicles, though the limit might be exceeded, subject to special conditions, where abnormal indivisible loads were carried.
The Minister had been questioned about commercial vehicles from other countries by Mr Leslie Huckfield, (Labour, Nuneaton) who later asked about the use of Continental log books for the recording of hours worked by Continental-based lorry drivers on British roads.
He was told by Mr Eldon Griffiths, Under Secretary of State for the Environment. that EEC and AETR books were accepted as an alternative to the British record book from drivers of temporarily imported 'goods vehicles.