The government has proposed a very long trial of supersized lorries. The trial will last 10 years and involve 900 lorries.

The supersized lorries will be 18.55m / 60 foot long – 2.05m longer than the current longest lorries.

The lorry industry have suggested they will save fuel and increase capacity by 15%. But industry reports are that huge proportion of lorries are travelling empty. Instead of the Department of Transport working on such trials for bigger lorries they should be working on trialling cross industry loading of lorries to maximise them being fuller when trundling along in our wing mirrors.

Opposers have suggested it will lead to another 6 road deaths a year. And how many seriously injured with life changing injuries each year.

I think this trial and the thinking behind it misses the point. In a planet suffering global warming we need to reduce the quantity of resources we consume and supersized lorries just plays to the past excessive consumption of goods.

We should be trialling how to make things last longer and be more durable not how to shift ever more of them about. And how to use the current lorry fleets much more efficiently sharing loads.

My last point is such lorries wont fit onto the majority of our roads. We should instead be focusing on moving such bulk goods by rail and this detracts from any incentive to do this.