Lorries, cars and road pricing
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Congestion and road pricing
Do we make the very nature of driving a car so expensive that only the very wealthy can afford it, or do we try and dangle a carrot, to change driver’s trends? Personally I would vote for the latter.
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Well maybe road pricing could work, but not for the lorry. This situation is getting bad now and we should realise that if the lorry stops running, we will all very quickly grind to a halt too!
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| 17-4-2008 | Have you been to Hereford lately, On a weekday morning, on a schoolday, it can take up to 45 minutes to travel approximately 1 mile. And it's not lorries which are the problem, it's all the mums taking the brats to school. So do all of us hard working truckers a break and let us get to our d...more | Timed delivery |
| 04-10-2007 | The car is a positively evil thing. Petrol prices should go up to get manufacturers to start thinking about green alternatives. The technology for clean cheap transport is out there so what is stopping it? | Get the damn phone woman. |
| 03-10-2007 | I cycle to work,I walk to the supermarket and to the Town in which I live, My wife walks my children to school EVERY day but yet I am to blame for road congestion!!.
My job,,,, Im a lorry driver.
Is it me?. | Jammymutt |
| 12-6-2007 | EB are you willing to work at night to accept your deliveries! are you going to wait up till 3am to take delivery of your new argos bed ETC. no thought not.
by the way I havent seen a train outside a shop in milan or barcellona yet delivering goods. | sambob |
| 09-4-2007 | I've been a night freight driver now for twelve months and it's bliss. No jams. No BMW driving morons. No caravans or campers. No Volvo estates with bible basher fish symbols on the back. No school run bimbo mothers in Hummers. No knackered old LDV minibuses hogging the 1st lane doing 45.
...more | Anti-stereotype Trucker |
| 07-3-2007 | Figures from the UK's Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders huge and wide-ranging vehicle data-base show that in 1950 the nation's van and truck fleet was at 1.5m, while the nation's car fleet stood at 2.3m. In 2005 the UK van and truck was a little over 3.8m while the nation'...more | Smiffy |
| 07-3-2007 | If you think about it, employers can easily play their part in reducing vehicles on the road at rush hour. Shift systems, flexitime and home working would help immensley with this problem. Unfortunately most companies would not consider it on two main grounds. 1, there would be a cost associated to ...more | Overall!! |
| 03-3-2007 | Although a certain % of hgv's do indeed travel at night, the powers that be have limited the hours allowed on this, to a point where it is not always viable, given the distances they are required to travel. The idea of using the train, has in recent times become more attractive, but it is limite...more | seyspray |
| 02-3-2007 | Why dont the lorrys transporting goods make there journeys at night? There is nothing on the motorways and it would clear up traffic in the morning. Or why dont we transport our goods via train? they do this on the continent. | EB |
| 01-3-2007 | There has been a vast increase in the number of lorries on the roads, am I to believe that each and everyone of them is essential to my way of life? The solution to the congestion on our roads is to get freight onto the railways, particularly as it is now far to dangerous for passengers to travel by...more | Gar |
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