Excessive Loads

HC Deb 19 January 1994 vol 235 cc597-8W

Mr. Redmond

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what plans he has to prevent commercial vehicles entering England with excessive loads.

British Rail punctuality (Yorkshire and Humberside area)
	Four-week periods
	1991–92	1992–93
Service group	11	12	13	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
TransPennine Express	90	94	96	93	87	89	91	94	92	92	89	88	91
South Yorkshire/Humberside (Long)	n/a	n/a	n/a	95	92	84	87	91	91	90	88	84	83
South Yorkshire/Humberside (Short)	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
West Yorkshire (Long)	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
West Yorkshire (Short)	91	94	93	96	93	95	94	95	94	93	90	91	92
InterCity Cross Country	82	86	86	86	78	80	82	83	85	83	73	77	79
InterCity East Coast Main Line	82	86	87	84	90	84	91	89	91	88	86	87	85

Notes:

1. The passengers charter target for punctuality has been set at 90 per cent. throughout the period for all regional railways and InterCity routes.

2. Some early figures are unavailable because of changes in route definitions.

3. Punctuality results are rounded to the nearest whole number.

British Rail punctuality (Yorkshire and Humberside area)
	Four-week periods
	1992–93	1993–94
Service group	11	12	13	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
TransPennine Express	93	93	92	90	89	87	90	87	93	91	81	83	86
South Yorkshire/Humberside (Long)	91	93	89	91	95	92	89	91	94	92	89	90	91
South Yorkshire/Humberside (Short)	91	91	87	87	89	92	86	85	85	80	82	82	90
West Yorkshire (Long)	96	95	95	95	95	94	95	94	95	95	85	89	91
West Yorkshire (Short)	92	91	92	93	90	89	91	91	93	90	81	85	89
InterCity Cross Country	80	87	83	84	84	84	87	89	87	86	84	86	81
InterCity East Coast Main Line	82	89	91	89	89	92	94	92	92	92	87	70	83

Mr. Key

Enforcement against overloading of commercial vehicles will continue to be undertaken at ports, with the agreement of port authorities, and at other inland sites within the vicinity of ports. Where driver self-weigh equipment is available operators and drivers are encouraged to use the facility to check-weigh and to help avoid vehicles leaving ports in an overloaded condition.

International goods vehicle traffic will also continue to be routinely checked at inland enforcement sites. Arrangements are currently being negotiated with Eurotunnel for checking channel tunnel traffic prior to leaving France.