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:rash load write-off plan
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Hauliers are to be canssed to see if loads on ard crashed trucks can be Dated as 'written off', owing police and recovery eraters to clear roads ich more quickly.
The consultation exercise to be carried out by the eight Transport Association Ilowing talks with officials from the Highways Agency and the Department of Transport last week.
James Hookham. the FTA's director of policy, says that all parties involved need to develop a new strategy for incident management. He explains: "If the police can assume the load has been written off then they can be a little less careful when recovering it, which will take less time. We are consulting our members over this to see if this is something they are happy for the Highways Agency to get on with."
The meeting was prompted by a series of motorway accidents this summer: in one incident the M20 was closed for nine hours.
Hookham adds; "Although a £10,000 load is a big deal for a business, it is nothing compared to the collective losses when a motorway is shut for two or more hours."
The FTA is continuing asking the Highways Agency to suspend the tolls on the M25 at Dartford when the motorway is exceptionally busy, allowing free flow of traffic.