stevieboy308:
PinkLadyTrucker:
stevieboy308:
you can’t stop progress.
joe public tend not to like loads of big trucks on the road, the, in my opinion minority of loud voiced, must be seen to be listening to, greenies are here to stay. to you say you shouldn’t work with rail firms as they are the enemy, you stick with your phone box, i’ll use my mobile.
who knows what it may bring, it didn’t look good for royal mail once the masses took up email, but then that brought ebay and mail order with it.
True you cannot stop progress
Joe public are more concerned about big trucks in their villages and cities, not so much on motorways, Just makes you wonder what joe public think when the motorway is congested at weekends and especially during bank holidays and Sale times when not so many trucks are actually on the roads 
The reality of having everything by train and RDC’s on out skirts of cities in the UK is plain Unworkable, Joe public would love to have around 20 Transits for every truck that is taken off the road, multiply that by how many trucks would of been going into say London, One bonus thou, More driving jobs 
, but at what cost, a bigger environmental so called foot print 
, oh you may say electric, great one, esp when running during peak times, additional transits on the roads, and working during the winter months, but then again more work for recovery drivers
being held up on A roads, the mile + long overtakes on dual carriageways / motorways, pulling out in front of people, driving too close to them and the carnage caused when it goes wrong, amongst plenty of other stuff would quickly get ticked off if you are asking non trucking folk about their opinions on trucks.
trains are never going to replace trucks, but chances are they’ll increase their market share, the majority of people imho would want that. just because i hold a hgv licence doesn’t mean i’m going to start jumping up and down.
i’m still waiting for you to tell me how standing together should work
No co incidence or surprise that all the hold ups on A roads and carnage issues bs propaganda all seem to disappear when the zb rail freight supporters want trucks to be used on intermodal work though. 
The fact is there’s no way that the rail freight industry can increase it’s share,(helped by the present government intervention using fuel taxation )to force loads onto intermodal operations,without it having an equally damaging effect on the long distance sector of the road transport industry.
The history,of the main driver of the road transport industry’s growth,shows that it’s doubtful wether the industry has much of a long term future,with such a reduction in it’s acccess to that sector of the market,considering the part,that the shift from rail to long distance road transport has played,in that growth,over the years.
I could certainly foresee a major shift in potential new drivers’ attitudes to the industry with just local work being on the table (why drive a 44 tonner when you could drive a car on taxi work ) and the same would probably apply to the truck manufacturing industry if the long distance sector of it’s market for trucks dissapeared in the medium term.
The whole issue is just a case of allowing a load of self interested big business zb’s having hijacked the green party agenda and they are using their unmadated policies to ‘rail road’ the rail freight agenda through and the road transport industry is stupid enough to let the zb’s do it.
However if the so called ‘majority’ really supported the zb greens then that’s what they would have voted for at the election and as the rail industry shows,in wanting to tear up the countryside,to put in rail freight depots and new lines that aren’t required,considering the unused road transport capacity that’s sitting redundant because it can’t afford the overtaxed diesel to run it’s trucks on,the rail freight industry is anything but zb green when it suits it.
Standing together in this case would mean total removal of all co operation with intermodal rail movements to start with and then see if the government will allow a level playing field between road and rail on fuel taxation.
