mac12:
There is 17 posts saying how wrong she is, but how many of you have told the Wiltshire Times we no it but there readers don’t but they do no her.
We don’t vote in that area so why would the local council be interested in what we say. The press only print what suits them and again we don’t buy their paper.
If they built a by-pass it would be cluttered up with farm vehicles and they would still complain.
I like the arguments for using vans from out of town hubs. it’s been used down the pub by some civil servant thick tossers that think they know it all.
1 artic at 6mpg goes to the superstore with 24 tons of product. but they want to put it on greener, lighter transport with a lower carbon footprint. so they send 12 vans with 2 tons on each, and each doing 20mpg. divide this up and look at your carbon footprint now.
Then there is the train argument. where’s the nearest suitable siding to off load all the trains onto vans? nowhere near the superstore. so they have to build one. how do the materials get there? train or van?
i can really see a flatbed transit with a 75’ bridge section on it.
If there was a law to be brought in, it should state that all weight limits are just that. no access only, just a limit.
waddy640:
mac12:
There is 17 posts saying how wrong she is, but how many of you have told the Wiltshire Times we no it but there readers don’t but they do no her.We don’t vote in that area so why would the local council be interested in what we say. The press only print what suits them and again we don’t buy their paper.
Have you tried writing to the local paper to tell them how much they need trucks.
Two separate Eddie Stobart truck have been caught by the bridge spotters, the story is in the Wilthsire Times.
In a nearby Village, they are moaning in the paper about a tipper firm, villagers have failed to mention that they have to drive in a defensive manner to get around all the long lines of parked cars.It is in Holt.
Villagers do not like the caviler style of driving and one guy mentions they are over revving, a dog walker says trucks nearly touch her as they drive past in a reckless manner, Nimbies again, it is none of their business, the operator has road tax and is doing a job.
they haven’t caught many !
Only 4 companies have been prosecuted
limeyphil:
If there was a law to be brought in, it should state that all weight limits are just that. no access only, just a limit.
Oh yes i agree there including dustcarts and fire engines too
I can have a little bit of sympathy towards the protesters, yes I agree that trucks bring everything, we do not have a rail siding into every hamlet, but there are often alternatives.
My point in case comes from Swarkestone Causeway, an Historic monument between the A50 and my sleepy village. Every week it is damaged or closed because of a lorry, some we catch and fine the companies, some we catch because they have blocked the road.
The simplest access route to the village is off the M1 at Donington Park services, or from the A42 it takes you directly to the Circuit, to 3 industrial estates and the town centre. That way there are no low bridges, narrow roads or conservation areas to avoid. It cant be difficult because many lorries do use that route, but the ones who use the A50 are blatantly ignoring several weight limit signs. These are not lorries going to farms or fuel stations, they are supermarket delivery vehicles, and other drivers who are simply stupid or lost.
The last vehicle cause a problem was a double decker Kingsmill bread lorry and he certainly wasnt delivering to the Asian corner shop. I recall a Morrisons lorry hitting the bridge and we are 11 miles from the nearest Morrisons store. In general it isn’t foreign companies flouting the bans, I cannot vouch for the nationality of the drivers until they cause some damage though.
I think a lot of people are missing the point with what is going on at Bradford on Avon.
If you look at the lorry watch web site the pictures are not of trucks trying to deliver locally they are ending up in the town because there are no proper signs for an alternative route. Bradford on Avon is not a town you want to end up in with a HGV so it’s about time drivers were helped in the area with a proper diversion route not prosecuted for making a mistake.
scotstrucker:
Angus25:
Thank god bath got told to wined there necks in that part of the country is hard enough to drive round with out these ■■■■might have been a good thing if they did ban them then it might have shown some of anti lorry brigade how much this country depends on trucks too deliver the basic stuff aswell as the luxury goods
Well said that man…
The proposed ban on the bridge in Bath wouldn’t have stopped deliveries, only through traffic. There are delivery zones and routes marked from the A4 and Upper Bristol Road for HGVs delivering to the city itself so the luxury goods would not have been disrupted. As for BonA, its a crap hole for lorries. The northern route around town isn’t the best, a bit tight through Wooley Green but it doles take you straight into the industrial side of Trowbridge and beyond. The only supermarket is on the town outskirts, south of the bridge. An out of town hub, stocked with a couple of 7.5t ‘trucks’ is not such a bad idea here, expenses passed on council taxes if course.
3dtramp:
I think a lot of people are missing the point with what is going on at Bradford on Avon.
If you look at the lorry watch web site the pictures are not of trucks trying to deliver locally they are ending up in the town because there are no proper signs for an alternative route. Bradford on Avon is not a town you want to end up in with a HGV so it’s about time drivers were helped in the area with a proper diversion route not prosecuted for making a mistake.
Well said! Some places have really good signs sending you the right way round, no truck driver wants to go through a weight limit a risk getting stuck, we’d all take the easy option but sometimes you just dont know which way to go and before you know it you’ve gone past the point of no return so theres no other option but to carry on. I can understand these lorry watch groups though, if you lived in a pretty little village you probably get ■■■■■■ off with lorries coming through all the time when they shouldnt be.
If anyone as delivered to Morrisons at Bridgewater the route is by the front door of the new housing estate, but soon the new bridge will be built for trucks to by pass the houses.
For Bradford you can pass it by Staverton, over the river by the Cereal Partners factory where Nestle used to be to get to Bath from Trowbridge.
i can see why the road from Frome to Warminster is a weight limit on the Cley Hill road, the road in Corsley is too narrow for two trucks to pass, but only in one direction, coming the other way it is an 18 ton limit, to get to Frome it is then the A 36 to Beckington.