Mr. Jerry Kiersey:

Everything counts, no matter how small it is. France has recently increased the maximum weight of carriage of five axle trucks from 40 tonnes to 44. We have just reduced it from 42 tonnes to 40. France did it for environmental reasons. Why are we doing the reduction? I do not understand the lack of joined-up thinking at all. People disassociate one thing with environmental benefits from another. We cannot do that; we need to consider the whole picture.