Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reasons Mobile Batching Concrete Plants are not entitled to operate outside of standard legal gross vehicle weight limits.

In the absence of explicit applicable provisions to the contrary, mobile concrete batching plant are subject to the standard legal weight limits for vehicles as defined in regulations. However, the Department has recently announced that it has put in place an arrangement to enable the legal operation of some of these vehicles above these limits for a temporary 10 year period. This is in recognition of the historic custom and practice of the operation of many of these vehicles.