LHVs are Cheaper and Greener

A supertankers on the highway! Huge lorries called LHVs - longer, heavier vehicles - could soon be thundering along Britain's roads if the haulage industry gets its way. Many people believes that they are longer, cheaper and greener!

But is it possible in Britain? Britain is not, let's face it, a land blessed by wide-open, meticulously-maintained straight and empty highways. Britain is, in reality, an increasingly overcrowded island, served by a network of crumbling, narrow highways and byways, a motorway network nearly full to capacity and a slowly-rising road casualty rate. Link