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Truck or Lorry is the colloquial name for Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGVs) which are used to convey freight by road. Vogue theory has it that decreasing the volume of goods moved by HGVs would bring a range of benefits. These large vehicles have a correspondingly highly damaging impact on the fabric of the highway network. They also have a significant negative effect on inter-urban highways and motorways where the efficiency of roads designed for fast moving traffic is impeded by the top speed of HGVs which is set at 60 mph throughout much of the developed world. Freight logistics is however a more complex business than it may appear to those who would simply prefer to cut the scale of HGV use. In practice, the economic and thereby social health of developed nations depends on movement of most goods by road and to be cost effective this is mostly done by hauliers using trucks. When the movement of freight is measured by weight it transpires that in Britain for example, 82 % of it is moved by private road modes – in contrast to 5% by rail, 6% by water and 7% by pipeline.
In practice, the global acceptance of standardised containers has cut the cost of transporting most of the goods on which national economies depend. But, by and large, such containers and their contents have to be moved between production centres and ports and onto retail outlets by road and are hauled by HGVs… To discover more about UK HGV issues go to the Freight Transport Association or the Road Hauliers Association.