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Haulage groups dismiss book on green transport as a 'joke'
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A FORTHCOMING BOOK, which proposes banning daytime truck deliveries and cutting the number of big trucks, has been dismissed as nonsense by haulage associations.
Green, User Friendly Transport, by retired Rover mechanical engineer Peter Mole, argues that a reduction in heavy trucks would increase the space available to light CVs and private traffic. Mole says: "All that is required is for local councils to ban the use of the heavier lorry in town centres until after shopping and business hours. This would leave operators with the option of running night shifts or changing to the smaller vehicles during the daytime
The trade associations have been critical of the book. Roger King, chief executive of the Road Haulage Association, describes it as "a joke". "The idea that more lorries will cut congestion and pollution is laughable, and clue to delivery restrictions, you can't send trucks into towns and cities at night. Customers want deliveries through the day."
Geoff Dossetter, director of external affairs at the Freight Transport Association, adds that Mole's ideas defy the laws of economics.