Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the safety of 38.4T volumetric concrete mobile plants on bridges.
We refer to the previous answer, UIN reference 62818. Following consultation in 2017, National Highways (then Highways England) commissioned a report into the loading effect on bridges of permitting volumetric concrete mixers (VCMs) to operate at higher than the standard applicable weights for vehicles of their design, including 38.4 tonnes.