Unladen journeys are already being reduced and the environment protected.
Thirdly, to environmental protection and the conservation of energy resources by reducing unladen journeys.
By restricting ourselves to 3 tons unladen we are talking about bread vans, milk floats, and nothing much bigger.
Information about the unladen weight of buses and coaches is not kept.
Now let me take the case of a typical commercial vehicle of a chassis price of£1,500 or£1,600, of seven or eight tons unladen weight.
The rebasing of vehicle excise duty from unladen to gross laden weight which occurred last month was designed to be tax negative.
However, vehicles must be able to attain a speed of 25 mph when unladen and not drawing a trailer before being permitted to use motorways.
The 20 miles per hour limit for commercial vehicles of over three tons unladen weight offers precisely the same inducement.
