To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what impact assessment he made prior to concluding that seven months was an adequate timeframe for manufacturers to significantly redesign MCBP vehicles.
Answered on
10 September 2018
In April 2018 the Department put in place a temporary administrative arrangement to enable much of the current fleet of Mobile Concrete Batching Plant (MCBP) vehicles to be legally operated for up to the next 10 years above the standard weight limits. This is intended to provide relevant operators with time to come into compliance with those currently-applicable limits. There is no evidence of a technical reason to prevent existing MCBP vehicle designs being operated within these weight limits.
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Department for Transport