Action Group Meeting - cycling deaths caused by lorries

Thanks for posting this.

In addition to Bill's (no doubt) excellent 'shopping' list of people to get onto, what is the mileage in getting the Road Hauliers' Association, whatever is the LGV licensing body and traffic police to start addressing this issue with the weight it deserves? There's no one on that list from lorry drivers' perspective or the enforcement end of things. This can't turn into LGVs VERSUS cyclists, this should be LGVs AND cyclists trying to develop a new more respectful relationship. As far as I can tell, the RHA, traffic police and whichever body licenses drivers of LGVs aren't making this a priority.

One way of doing this is seeing if you can get some of the trade unions interested (Unite, GMB, URTU, RMT, off the top of my head, but there could be more). Of course, when a trucker kills or injures a cyclist due to lack of training or a lapse in concentration, it affects the driver psychologically, and therefore affects their everyday life. it may also be related to heavy pressures such as unmanageable targets and deadlines to be met that cause some to drive dangerously. thus it becomes a union issue in that respect too, in terms of workload.

So you're right - developing a more positive relationship between truckers and cyclists is in everyone's interests.