* Helsinki - More mega trucks to roll on Finnish roads
-- A lorry measuring over 30 metres in length can haul two large, 12-metre shipping containers, explains Tuomo Vallas, the managing director of Speed Group. “You can't fit two containers onto a regular 25-metre lorry, and you definitely can't take 1.6 containers,” he says... Speed Group is currently one of four companies to receive a special permit to operate larger lorries from the Finnish Transport Safety Agency (Trafi) since November 2013. The provider of road haulage services has been granted a five-year trial period to haul shipping containers from ports in Helsinki and Kotka to inland Finland... The number of mega trucks on Finnish roads may increase sharply in the coming years. Trafi is currently considering 19 permit applications for lorries over 76 tonnes in weight or over 25.25 metres in length. Thus far, a special permit has been granted for six such lorries, while a seventh one is likely to embark on its maiden voyage in the summer... Such longer and heavier lorries have been said to, for example, improve logistical efficiency, increase the competitiveness of export industries and reduce emissions from heavy road freight transport... For Speed Group, the lorries are means to hauling two shipping containers with a single vehicle... In the future, lorries operating under a special permit will become an increasingly common sight on main roads in Finland...
(Photo: Driver Petri Rouvinen pictured alongside a mega truck operated by Speed Group at Vuosaari Harbour in Helsinki) -- Helsinki, Finland - The Helsinki Times - 30 Mar 2015Labels: larger and heavier trucks, trucking industry news worldwide
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