Yeah, but that photo is at least 5yrs old Foxy and things have change vastly for the worse since then. Rail transport is no longer a government priority.
subsidise new agriculture market gardens, under glass salad growers… direct these migrants there instead of to their dads hotel in bloody London, no dont give them a choice, unless they have a skill, then they could be given a trade test… why in Gods name must Doncasters Tomatoes travel a thousand miles? subsidise bloody dutch growers to grow here if English growers cant do it…
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There is absolutely no need to. Chris Wall and his family already are the Uk’s largest tomato grower, about 3-4 crow flown miles from my door here in West Sussex. They pick from early march right the way through 'til late November; six varieties of tomatoes are grown within 10.5 hectares of glasshouses and that’s one heck of a lot of glass.
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Longer semi-trailer guidance now published on GOV.UK
Longer semi-trailers (LSTs) are now being used on Great Britain’s roads.
Vehicle operators can now tow LSTs measuring up to 2.05 metres longer than a standard semi-trailer (up to 15.56 metres long).
What operators need to know
The Department for Transport has published guidance on LSTs which operators need to read. Some of this may be different from your usual operating procedures.
If you intend to use LSTs, you will need to notify the Office of the Traffic Commissioner through the Vehicle Operator Licensing (VOL) system.
The guidance covers a number of different items:
- route planning
- risk assessment
- compliance record keeping
- driver training requirements
- wider staff awareness/training
Read the guidance on longer semi-trailers.
Just out of idle curiosity, are those the greenhouses in The Barnham area just north of the rail tracks?
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The photo was just a generic one I used LongDriver but I could show you some dashcam of the M1 any time of day and there will be convoy’s of lorries from Leeds down to London. And as a retired courier who spent the last twenty years of my life on the road It would be a safe bet that all the other motorways are the same, and even worse than when I was hurtling down them…
Why isn’t rail transport a priority? HS2 seems to be…Why don’t they use the billions of £’s that they are sending to Ukraine? We simply can’t afford such extravagance.
So LD dont we import tomato’s from the EU?
How will they get around roundabouts ?
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I’ve no idea as I always buy local produce locally from farm shops.
There are growers all the way from Lagness to Barnham and Pagham plus Chichester to Selsey, and West Wittering, as much of the area is agricultural land.
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might you be surprised to learn that we import almost £500,000,000 worth of tomato’s annually, and we only grow a fifth of our tomato consumption?
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That number would give me the pip 
Even so the flat bed has to get around too .
We have a lot of lorries coming up what was once a quiet narrow country lane They are too wide and do terrible damage to the verges and edge of road .
as i say Muddy they should be limited to motorways, even that will give them problems, if you come off the motorway in Doncaster the roundabout is quite tight, way to tight for one of these to turn…
then when they come off the mototway how are we supposed to overtake them on our highways
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Lets face it, it’s a sackless idea. But it’s what you’d expect from an Eton and Oxbridge government who don’t have a clue…
Tomatoes are proving to be a sticking point in the Australia/EU FTA negotiations.
With extreme caution and awareness just as we do now with long and wide vehicles.
You can blame sat nav for those incursions.