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MEGATRUCKS * Europe - LGVs get thumbs down in survey
Allowing longer and heavier trucks, so-called megatrucks on all EU roads would cause significant long-term environmental damage, a new study has found
Dresden,Germany -HGV (Ireland) -17 May 2009: -- ... The Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research published its latest survey last week. The study was based on evidence from field tests in Germany and simulations in the UK... At the moment, megatrucks are only permitted in two EU countries, Finland and Sweden, and are not allowed to travel across borders... The Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark and Germany are running tests ahead of their possible introduction... The European Commission is considering allowing trucks weighing up to 60 tonnes instead of the current 40 tonnes on all EU roads to help the bloc to attain its climate goals... A Commission study available since January argues that replacing three traditional trucks with two long and heavy vehicles (LHVs) would bring down both CO2 and toxic emissions... Tuesday's study contests these findings, arguing that negative impacts of a modal shift from railways to roads in the longer term would far outweigh the short-term benefits of reducing emissions, due to more efficient road traffic. The authors thus conclude that longer and heavier road freight vehicles are "not a suitable element of climate protection policy"... (Picture from freightonrail.org.uk: A megatruck)Labels: megatrucks
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