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'Irresponsible' to spurn heavier lorries
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PEOPLE who spurned heavier lorries with the possibilities they offered for cutting costs and saving fuel were "utterly irresponsible", the Freight Transport Association's Thames Valley division was told this week.
Mr E. F. Brock, chairman of the Association's technical committee, told members that a comparative road test -published in CM February 21 -had spelt out "with a vengeance" both the fuel savings and the greater productivity which could be achieved with a 38-ton vehicle.
Mr Brock said that it was essential for all interested parties to hammer away at the facts; the Government would only agree to a change in the law if public opinion changed.
Heavier vehicles was only one part of the EEC package, said Mr Brock, the Association was keeping up the pressure to exempt deirnestic traffic from the 4m overall height rule.