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Better roads call
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THE COUNCIL for the Protection of Rural England says heavy commercial vehicles on unsuitable roads are the main cause of ill feeling against the lorry.
In its submission to the Armitage Inquiry, the council says that at least 107,000 of Britain's 207,000 miles of roads are unsuitable for heavy vehicles, and proposes a four-part programme to improve matters.
It wants designated and advisory lorry routes to remove unwanted heavy vehicles, but the Council admits that this could be hindered by a shortage of other suitable routes.
It advocates distribution systems based on transhipment centres which would hold no stocks, but would be the bases for small demountable delivery vehicles. Three or four demountable bodies could then be trunked to and from factories on "mother" vehicles.
In order to move more goods on to railways, the Council wants transport planning to be improved. In particular, it suggests that road transport be "rationalised" by either increasing lorry taxation or by restricting the issue of Operators licences.