Truckers protest fuel hikes

Shame though it is for the families of any haulage companies which
may go out of business it's my opinion that there are too many trucks on British roads
at the moment. Getting rid of a few will be welcome benefit.

I travel many miles, particularly on motorways, as part of my work
and the number of heavy goods vehicles trying to overtake one another
and clogging up the centre lane whilst going nowhere is stupid. Many
of the motorway traffic jams are caused by this stupidity. Also, it's
likely to reduce the accident statistics as most of the accidents I have
'seen' on motorways have a heavy goods vehicle involved.

Get the trains going...and fast.

I am fed up that this "industry" is miss-using the road "just" to transport goods for over thousands of kilometers across the continent/Europe. This form of transport is ridiculously inefficient. Within a reasonable radius it's unavoidable, but today's ultra-cheap energy makes people waste it and think it's normal.

We all know that the last 20 years the truck-transport's have boomed. The unavoidable increase of the energy cost kills the inefficient systems first: there you go. It's time for more energy efficient systems to be developed and used. Use trains for mid-long distance.

Sorry, but the ones that learn quick will survive. Get used to it