Arntage: is it 40 tonnes?
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THE INDUSTRY was waiting with baited breath this week for Government announcement on its plans for the year-old Armitag Report on lorries, people, and the environment.
nationi appeared to be growing by if minute.
Speaking in Glasgow la: week, Freight Transport Associi tion director-general Hug Featherstone said he was antic pating a White Paper which sympathetic to the industry needs, and said that he et visaged the White Paper incluc ing most of Armitage's recorr mendations, in order to satisf public concern about heavit vehicles.
He conceded that some of th more contentious items, such a lorry action areas, might not g into the Government's plant and he confessed to being um
ware of the exact position rc garding road expenditure.
Urging the Government t, take action as soon as possiblE FTA president Len Payne toll the Association's Scottish din ner: "A White Paper does no help industry by one iota. W, want implementation."
The hints of Government ac tion promoted both the Counci for the Protection of Rural Eng land and Transport 2000 to writ( to Transport Secretary Davi( Howell last week, protestinc that Cabinet approval had beet given before the environmenta groups had discussed the matte with him.