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Italian hauliers seek rules clarity
P
aolo Uggè, head of the Italian road haulage association Conftrasporto, has sent a letter to Italy’s transport minister Graziano Delrio
asking for clear and precise rules for transport of out-of-gauge (OOG) cargoes on the nation’s road network. “Following the accident that occurred in Lecco
last autumn when a bridge collapsed over a busy road while a heavy goods vehicle was crossing, today there are many municipalities around Italy that do not issue authorisations for exceptional load transport by road,” said Uggè, emphasising the need for a clear legal framework both for manufacturers and also for transport operators. “In Italy, a comprehensive map of the weight
capacity of every single item of road infrastructure is still missing and that is one of the reasons why several municipalities are so cautious at issuing the necessary authorisations,” added Conftrasporto’s chairman. Beyond that, there are also different
interpretations about the limit of 108 tonnes for each single shipment to be classified as an
Road haulage in Italy.
oversize or overweight load. Uggè and the association he heads asked in a
public letter sent to the transport minister for clear and uniform rules for all the stakeholders, in order to simplify the issues involved in the licensing of OOG cargoes for transport by road in Italy.
Brunel launches China-UK rail service B
runel Project Cargo says that it can now offer a rail service for containers
from Yiwu in China to London, UK.
The China-Europe container
train departing from Yiwu, which is operated by Yiwu Timex Industrial Investment, has been running the service to
Madrid (Spain) via Duisburg (Germany) for over a year.
NEWS IN BRIEF
Meier hauls boiler German heavy haulage provider Spedition Meier & Sohn has used its Faymonville CombiMAX trailer combination to deliver an 85-tonne boiler. Meier & Sohn configured the 12-axle semi low loader with telescopic add-on beam to move the boiler, which measured 30 m long and had a diameter of 5 m.
RHA launches abnormal loads forum The UK's Road Haulage Association (RHA) has established an abnormal loads cross industry forum and working group to address concerns affecting the industry, including the movement notification procedures, the response of police and structure owners, compliance and enforcement.
KOG navigates tunnel KOG Transport has coordinated the delivery of a 48-tonne THF recovery plant unit from Basel, Switzerland, to Patrica in Italy via the Gotthard Road Tunnel. The unit, which measured 22m long by 4.5 m wide and 4 m high, was transported through the 17 km long tunnel on a flatbed truck with telescopic chassis.
The first container train to
London departed from Yiwu on January 1, 2017. “We believe this is going to
change the way a lot of forwarders and shippers view their imports and exports for China,” said Mike White, group operations director at Brunel Project Cargo.
Macarale beams pull Deme Macarale has been using its two new FlexMAX self-steering trailers from Faymonville to transport concrete beams of 24 m to 26 m in length and 20 and 70 tonnes in weight. Faymonville says that the FlexMAX range of vehicles is ideally suited to navigating roundabouts and tight corners with heavy loads.
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