Re: Why are lorries speed restricted?

On 10 May, 20:58, boltar2...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Sun, 10 May 2009 10:04:27 +0100

Conor <conor_tur...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <gu5umf$5h...@xxxxxxxx>, boltar2...@xxxxxxxxxxx says...

Or invest more in freight on railways. That is what they were designed for.
A good network of rail lines delivering to hubs with 7.5 tonners doing the
last few miles is a lot preferable to 44 tonners pounding up and down the
motorways.

It'd have the same net effect on congestion as increasing the number of
lorries in the UK fivefold.

Since when did every HGV run at max weight and deliver an entire load to one
location? Most arn't at 44 tons and even the ones that are sometimes do
multiple drops.

If its a big single load then get an HGV to take it awaqy from the rail
hub, if not then get something smaller. Whatver the result it'll mean less
miles on the road for the load and less congested roads without conveys
of inefficient slow moving trucks blocking 1 or 2 lanes of every highway
doing a pathetic 3mpg or less just to move a load thats less than half the
weight of a single locomotive never mind the train behind it.

B2003

Oh dear! Idealism fails to meet reality yet again. Railways are 18th C
anachronisms and since the decimation that occured to the network in
the sixties they will only ever exist as a viable alternative to
trucks in the minds of those with little grasp of the workings of the
supply chain system.

This is an example of a typical job I do in my artic, I collect from
up to five remote farms, and deliver the contents to one or two
supermarket processing depots over 300 miles away where the produce is
packaged priced and readied for sale, meanwhile I go to another
processing plant, about 50 miles, where I collect a load of prepared
goods and take this to an RCD about 200 miles, then I come back and it
goes round again. Truck is back home within a day and a half ready to
go again. How are you going to compete in both time and cost using a
train? The farms are a long way from a rail connection as are all the
other places, the Plants and RCD's are deliberately built on sites
very close to motorway junctions, not a feature of rail connections.
The cost to resite for trains would be prohibitive and with all the
trans-shipment needed the housewife's loaf of bread has no chance of
being fresh when she gets it, I'm sure she will object to paying three
and a half quid for a stale loaf.

Even bulk deliveries, like coal to power stations, which the train is
good at, could be better served by building coastal power stations (as
some are) and delivering our imported coal/oil direct to them.

Railfreight is dead in the water unless you are talking bulk or
containers.
.

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