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TRANSPORT POLICY * UK - RHA moves to block foreign lorries
London,ENG,UK -HGV UK -March 2, 2010: -- Transport for massive new wind farms looks set to be done by foreign hauliers, thanks to a disputed loophole in EU law... The Road Haulage Association is calling on government to stop contracts given to Danish and Spanish transport firms that have no licence to operate trucks in the UK... Large components will be made in Spain and Denmark and sent by sea to ports around the country. Once landed in the UK, foreign trucks will transport them to the wind farms. Hundreds of abnormal load movements are involved, all carried under special regulations as the load cannot be moved on a conventional 44-tonne articulated lorry... Normally, to undertake haulage in the UK, the haulier must have to have a UK operating licence or, in the case of foreign operators, be operating under cabotage* regulations. But there is a loophole. The Combined Transport Directive... Set up almost 20 years ago to encourage firms to develop coastal shipping between countries rather than go by road, the directive was never intended for transport to islands such as the UK, where there is no road link; this includes the Channel Tunnel rail link... (Photo from upload.wikimedia.org: Wind turbine blade transport)
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