Plant bosses blast “inflexible” police over road bans

The Construction Plant-hire Association (CPA) has written to the Secretary of State for Transport, Mark Harper calling for a more flexible regime over police bans on moving mobile cranes and large plant on the country’s roads.
The simmering issue came to a head over Easter when police forces across the country strictly enforced road embargoes on the movement of large construction kit.
Research by the CPA has discovered an increasingly draconian approach by some forces including one firm wa