Hauliers’ 600-truck protest set to cause traffic chaos

A PROTEST by up to 600 trucks, which will cause traffic chaos on the M50 in Dublin from 5am on Tuesday, will continue indefinitely unless the participants’ complaints are listened to by road authorities.

The protest is being held by the newly formed Road Transport Association in, what it says, is hauliers’ frustration at the heavy goods vehicle management strategy implemented by Dublin City Council and the Government. The hauliers affiliated to the group also want tolls abolished for the HGVs on the M50.

The protest does not have the backing of the mainstream Irish Road Hauliers Association (IRHA), which says not enough thought has been put into it and that it will only be inconveniencing the innocent motorists already suffering gridlock on the reduced-lane M50.