They should double the tax on petrol to reduce the amount of traffic on the road.

I leave around 7.30 every morning, never had any probs on the 62

Agreed....and also double the tax on burgers, chips and Coke to stop the fattys getting fat too!!....

I use the M62 every single working day about 7am and I am never able to get above 40mph. With these roads works which will last until March 2010 the journey will be even worse.

It actually shouldn't be, because the limit will be 50, which you never reach anyway, so you shouldn't be able to spot a difference...

With the majority of my work being around the Manchester area, those road works WILL reduce me to tears at some point, i'm sure of it. The whole year to do them, and they decide to do them over christmas....outside the Trafford Centre.....brilliant, a planning masterpiece.

Would you apply the same sort of taxation on fuel to lorries? (seen as the UK haulage industry is taxed to death presently)

Interesting that you say that the haulage industry is being taxed to death??....From my experience on the motorways (and I spend nearly everyday on various 1's throughout the country), I would say that there has never been a time when there has been more lorries on the road, both British & foreign, and for the most part it is this volume of lorries that actually slows down the transport network.



So personally, driving a few of these HGV's off the road would only be a good thing for me....If high taxation also stops selfish parents taking kids everywhere by car as well, then that's even better.

Overall there are less lorries on the road as hauliers are hit by the recession & lorry drivers are finding it increasingly difficult to find work.



Also if you 'drive lorries off the road' as you put it watch the supermarket shelves start emptying.

I would charge lorries an additional licence fee to use motorways outside of the hours from 9.00pm to 6.00am.



There would then be an additional charge for wagons to use anything other than the inside lane.



Whenever traffic slows on a motorway there is always a wagon in the second lane over-taking a wagon in the inside lane. The problems are then heightened as this often tempts women drivers to venture into the outside lane.

Sorry, there are more lorries than ever blocking the roads and as for the supermarket shelves??....Do you not honestly think that ASDA and their ilk will simply have their own private fleets??

I don't know where you get your information from at all fella as I have friends in this industry scratching around for work that isn't there. I know of three haulage companies (2 in Yorkshire, one in Warrington) that have gone to the wall in the last year. ASDA & their ilk do have their private fleets albeit some of the big four supermarkets do sub-contract their haulage & distribution to DHL, Stobart, Wincanton etc etc.