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CEMR calls on European Parliament to vote against "mega trucks"
They pollute, they damage roads and they promote freight road transport to the detriment of rail transport: mega trucks should not be allowed in Europe! This is how CEMR secretary general Jeremy Smith sums up the Council of European Municipalities' call to the European Parliament ahead of the vote in the Transport Committee (on 26 June 2007).
In a letter to the members of the Parliament's Transport Committee, CEMR expresses Europe's local and regional government's concern at some aspects of the Commission's communication on freight logistics.
Heavy lorries of up to ...
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