Sentence examples for lorries off from inspiring English sources

"Freeing up capacity will help freight and take lorries off the roads also, decreasing congestion and helping goods travel more efficiently around the country.

That is why up to £250m was made available to build a lorry park which could take lorries off the county's roads in the event of disruption.

Fitting just a third of the UK's refrigerated trailer fleet with a Dearman engine could remove 180 tonnes of particulate matter from the air annually, the equivalent of taking 367,000 Euro VI diesel lorries off the road.

Aiming to take thousand of container lorries off the roads, this radically enhanced national transport "spine" would also carry power lines and communications cables, cutting down on the need for new pylons.

So, on April 10th, Mr Gowda's government capitulated to a strike by truckers, who were enraged by government attempts to levy new taxes and increase their insurance payments.The strike, which got under way on April 1st, had put more than 2m lorries off the road.

LibDem Gareth Wilson said the toll road was intended to take lorries off the main A14 but this would not happen.

The BBC's Steve Rosenberg says more than 100 lorries set off southwards before dawn on Thursday.

Four lorries fell off the Yangmingtan Bridge in Harbin City, Heilongjiang province, when part of it collapsed, Xinhua news agency said.

It might mean lorries turning off into a lay-by after going through the border but there will be checks".

The lorry set off from Budapest in the early hours of Wednesday morning, and reached the Hungarian-Austrian border by 9am.

But despite it being a sparsely trafficked road, no sooner had we started than a huge lorry turned off the main road and stopped to pick us up.