Large Goods Vehicles

(asked on 16th May 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will set out the changes to maximum weight of lorries allowed on UK roads since 1992; and the years in which such changes were made.


Answered by
Trudy Harrison Portrait
Trudy Harrison
This question was answered on 24th May 2022

The maximum vehicle weight for HGV’s was increased in 1993 to 35 tonnes (from 32.5); in 1994 to 38 tonnes; in 1999 to 41 tonnes and in 2001 to 44 tonnes, excluding variations for exemptional circumstances.

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