Sour grapes
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• The road haulage industry has frequently been accused of trying to wish away unpalatable facts. Whatever the truth of that accusation, your editorial on the Green Revolution (CM 26 Sept-2 Oct) lends it weight.
While you scoff at the idea of sending more freight by inland waterway, another page of the same issue refers to 20% of Germany's freight moved on its inland waterways. The news for Commercial Motor would seem to be that the Germans don't use "pretty shire horses" to move it either.
As for the "silly claim" that a 40-tonner damages the road more than 200,000 cars — this is the result of both American and British government research on highways, and accepted widely by highway engineers.
Nick Lester,
ALA Planning and transport office, London SW I H 9JF.