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The road-wreckers
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LORRIES are smashing motorways to pieces, according to Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen's leader Ray Buckton. He told Sir Arthur Armitage that more goods should go by rail, but social taxes are not the answer.
Mr Buckton referred to damaged motorways throughout the country, while railways remained underutilised, and he said that the public is paying far more overall for goods to go long distances by roads than by rail: "We must reverse the shift away from rail and water transport, and I am not speaking as a railwayman."
But he dismissed the idea of a social tax for heavy vehicles which cause environmental damage. "It is no compensation for a fellow to knock down my house or shake me out of my bed with his heavy lorry, and then for him to say .he's paying for it. "Why cause damage it it's unnecessary? I want to stop the damage being done to the people of this country," said Mr Buckton, Mr Buckton said that Section 8 private siding grants would have to be very big for industry to justify a switch away from road-based distribution schemes. Otherwise, they would not be able to afford redundancy payments.