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Sentence Examples It's a miracle I didn't collide with another vehicle or cause a pile-up because I had lots of close shaves with lorries and cars. Instead we have our post unsorted and often immobile in lorries on jammed roads. They will bleed us dry in subsidies and legitimise a lot of the riff-raff coming here in the back of lorries. This produced angry protest blockades of bin lorries, with local people saying that unless all bins were collected then none would be. The two were jailed for refusing to give undertakings that they would not defy a court order, by taking part in blockades of refuse lorries. The blockade meant that lorries attempting to enter or leave the factory were stopped from doing so. Vehicle excise duty on lorries and motorbikes is frozen at the existing rates and there is no extra tax on insurance premiums. At busy periods, trunk roads such as the A64 are filled by a hazardous mix of cars, lorries, motorbikes and tractors. The software connects to databases, including the Police National Computer, with details on 4.5 million cars, motorbikes, vans and lorries. I would stop all the lorries thundering through the high street and delivery vans mounting the pavements, blocking shop entrances. Councillors were concerned that around 60 lorries per day and hundreds of cars will place an unmanageable strain on the town's roads. Gusts reached speeds of up to 50 mph in the Vale of York in the early hours today, upturning trees, blowing over lorries and damaging roofs. Scores of lorries use the road every day to make deliveries to a bakery, builders' merchant and several other industrial units in the street. Retake the Streets is an independent non-party group opposed to cars, lorries and washing. Mr Sutcliffe told the meeting that the lane had been a quiet country lane, but now had heavy lorries using it to get to a nearby business park. A lot of heavy lorries use this road, and the surface is terrible in places. More commonly, lorries, half-tracks, and APCs have carried the infantryman onto the battlefield, and the MICV can now carry him across it. They seemed completely oblivious of the thousands of cars, buses and lorries thundering past. By 1920 digging was easier, equipment included steam shovels, lorries, tractors and stone crushers. The port tunnel will steer lorries away from Dublin's quays, drawing people back to the river. Show More Sentences These include closing some roads to cars, buses and lorries on Sundays so that people can walk, run and cycle in safety. It is 3am and the only people on the streets are bloodstained meat porters lugging carcasses from cold-storage lorries to the butchers' aisles. Now one couple, who moved to the area a few years ago and protested against the lorries, have been sent hate mail telling them to get out. Commercial hauliers have unnecessarily harsh restrictions on sealing lorries and length of journey but we can give you details from the office. Several lorries would be required to carry the mail which is now carried in one train. The road has been made so narrow in places that buses and lorries can only just get through. Ms Hopkins believes Jack stows away on lorries and cars and is transported unwittingly far from home. The removal of rubble has become industrial in scale, with huge lorries with six-foot wheels normally used in strip mines carting it away. Trees had been uprooted, telegraph poles broken, roofs torn off, advertising hoardings smashed and lorries turned over. Five drivers were reported for allegedly having overweight lorries, and received immediate prohibition notices. One elderly woman has launched her own campaign for a CCTV camera crackdown on overweight lorries illegally passing through the town centre. One said he was unable to work because of the noise coming from the horns and hooters of the passing lorries and cars! It joined a convey of 23 ambulances and nine lorries packed with humanitarian aid. If the system works it could lead to early warning systems being installed in coaches, lorries and cars. This petrol pump was used to fill petrol tanks of lorries in the street without having to drive them into the forecourt. It was an attempt to try and stop the deterioration of the service in order to be able to compete with buses and lorries. Jeeps and lorries trundled down asphalt roads and the safari package tour was in its infant stages. Small dinky lorries were lined up, their drivers like pygmies from another world than that of the steel ship. Whether State's transport lorries ferried them or that they came of their own is not the issue. Thus Bridget descends by parachute into a pigsty full of excrement, struggles hopelessly on skis, and gets drenched by passing London lorries. Show More Sentences For the past week, hundreds of lorries and workmen have passed through the castle gates as feverish activity went on inside the grounds. John knew every haulage owner and driver as well as registration numbers and make of lorries in Connacht and not a few from outside as well. It must then be passed by customs before the aid agencies for which it is consigned can take it away in the waiting lorries. Concerns are that oil and diesel could leak from lorries at the container terminal and seep into the sea and wetlands. Most of the smuggling cases detected previously at border control points had involved lorries instead of coaches. It ripped off roofs, flattened buildings and threw container lorries great distances. Although the weather conditions were unpleasant, the berth was well sheltered and there was excellent access for all cranage and lorries. It was the sound of milk bottles being dropped into crates and loaded on to lorries. We leave the relatively smooth dirt roads previously flattened by NGO supply lorries and four-wheel-drive jeeps. We had four desert equipped four-wheel-drive vehicles, two landrovers and two Bedford lorries. This decision will result in a large amount of heavy freight being carried by lorries on the already overcrowded roads. She said she contacted the local depot and they had confirmed fridges and freezers were being put into bin lorries. When the firm started the project in May last year, it ripped up the footpath so its lorries and earth movers could move around the site. Members of three generations of a family died in their car when sandwiched between the lorries. The vessel's first and only consignment of freight included more than 100 articulated lorries, and scores of trucks crowd the ship's upper decks. The Clyde puffers were the fleets of 66-foot-long floating lorries that once carried general cargoes to the islands. Currently, lorries pull over on the side of the road to unload and traffic passes around them. The government's measures have provoked other forms of disruption, such as go-slows by lorries on motorways and major city roads. Mr Dowling said the amount of dirt and grime thrown up by passing lorries would be reduced. I live near a busy road and heaven knows what the Carbon Monoxide and other gunk that is churned out by cars and lorries do to me. Show More Sentences He was deployed as a dispatch rider but is now driving the lorries distributing water. Tiny rural roads used as diversions were brought to a standstill by lorries trying to find a way around the chaos. Diversionary loops also create extra track capacity for freight trains, enabling many more lorries to be taken off the roads. One option would be running a light railway or tram system over the new bridge as well as diverting lorries across it. Council leader Smith has promised an abatement of problems in the Purfleet area caused by hundreds of heavy lorries. The convoy, which included articulated lorries, skip wagons and even a tractor, was escorted by police as it left Monks Cross at 8am. Eradicating the crawler lane would mean heavy lorries slowing down the traffic up Golden Hill. The grass is being ruined by the vans and lorries and by the travellers' quad bikes. Travelling at the same speed as lorries, we lost count of the number trying to bully us out of their way. Once inside the factory grounds, the lorries drive over a weighbridge where their gross weight is automatically measured. The additional lorries would lead to more accidents and people being killed or disabled. They have put traffic calming islands in the road, but lorries just swerve round them like juggernauts. Large vans and lorries are kept off by a concrete and bollard bottleneck barrier. Firefighters had to help a woman who was trapped in the car and a man stuck in the cab of one of the lorries. Within an hour my stomach was doing an imitation of one of those lorries with a rotating drum that deliver ready-mixed cement. Each mast is supported on four legs, spaced widely enough for articulated lorries to pass underneath. We clamber aboard army lorries along with the PM's red boxes and his staff. Four lorries were also wrecked in the blaze which was fought by 35 firemen at Barlows Mill off Stand Lane. We should always be edgy when we walk down dark alleyways in the middle of the night and be scared of lorries on the motorway. The resulting materials are loaded into hoppers, from where they are either bagged up or loaded directly into lorries for local delivery. Show More Sentences I would be slightly troubled by the possibility of not being seen by, for instance, reversing lorries. I witnessed the panic as people fled the city in cars, lorries, motor cycles, bullock carts, bicycles, rickshaws, you name it. Besides autos, there are two-wheelers, transport buses, water lorries, rickshaws and cycles. Desperate to avoid forking out thousands, Chris planned to take the plane apart and transport the pieces in 12 lorries to Tameside. How would he like 140 lorries a day passing his house for at least five years? It could see major roads and arteries into the city gridlocked as hundreds of lorries are stopped from accessing the docks. For health and safety reasons it needs to be put in containers rather than sacks, and it needs different lorries to transport it. A long-awaited ban on heavy lorries using the notorious stretch of highway was finally announced last year. They say heavy lorries and cars are travelling too fast along the road, which is very narrow in parts. Because of the many industrial companies based in the road, its traffic also includes large numbers of heavy lorries. With the coaches and heavy lorries off the roads the congestion on our highways would be greatly reduced. There are 20 tonne lorries coming at speed through the village, where there is a junior school. The name is painted on white articulated lorries parked across a massive expanse of yard. The village was being covered with dust from the 30-ton lorries thundering through it from the nearby quarry. As well as cars, there are frequent buses, heavy lorries and a lot of farm traffic. The move will put another 500 heavy lorries onto Britain's roads each week. And he believes drivers of heavy lorries will avoid the new road because he says it will have to be built on a steep incline. Villagers have complained about large lorries daily rumbling past a 16-pupil school on a very narrow road. The only concession to modernity on the 50-year-old lorries is that the engines have been converted to run on unleaded petrol. A man was in a critical condition in hospital yesterday after being crushed between two gritting lorries as he loaded one on to a low-loader. Show More Sentences Pembrokeshire County Council had 14 gritting lorries on continuous patrol to salt the roads. Along the road was a steady stream of trucks and lorries, piled high with belongings, from bedding and clothing to cement mixers and furniture. Since yesterday, we have seen a fair bit of traffic on the roads here and lorries and trucks carrying food, water, medicines. The absence of the late night trucks and lorries will be a blessing for many. Mrs Holmes says so many lorries come back and forth that it can be dangerous walking through the area. Several lorries then ploughed into the wreckage as the motorway was turned into a scene of chaos as cars and lorries collided with each other. Three fire engines and a rescue tender attended the crash which involved a car and two lorries. This is the explosive essence of carnival, and it is driven by music from bandwagons, articulated lorries stacked 30 feet high with speakers. These same emissions zones will also catch clapped-out old bangers and poorly-maintained lorries and vans. He hired a crew of workers who used JCBs, a tipper truck, lorries and floodlighting to remove track from the disused line. It is caused by diesel fumes belching from the packed vehicles and halfway-wrecked lorries that clog the roads. One probably should not, however, attempt toplessness too often amid booming lorries on the M25, as I did once before retreating under the roof. Cars would be banished to long tunnels running beneath the complex, and lorries and trucks to an even deeper tunnel network below them. Not only cars pass me at these speeds but lorries and, would you believe, cars towing caravans! Police have now found all the lorries and trailers, but all the chocolate, wine and beer is missing. The double-ended ferries could carry 2 lorries and 4 tricars, and plied between Wakato and Wakamatsu of northern Kyushu. A mechanical shovel was used to load lorries resulting in the decimation of the surface. A local resident fears the plans will also mean up to 25 lorries a day trundling past her house. At periodic intervals, the iron bars at the mouth of narrow roads, put up to prevent the entry of heavy vehicles, are knocked down by lorries, due to reckless driving. Both lorries shed their loads on to the road, and one slid a quarter of a mile down the hill, coming to rest on the bridge at Crambeck, near Malton. Show More Sentences One year ago to the day I stood behind a wire fence staring at a confusion of cranes, bulldozers and lorries scurrying around what could only be described as a building site. The company is now selling advertising space in car parks, on petrol-pump handles, shopping baskets, lorries and even the floor of its supermarkets. There are the menacing lorries and tipper trailers that are parked on the roads, and there is daylong hammering and tinkering and revving of engines for repairs. The one he's got handles batteries for lorries as well so if you're driving near Weybridge and your lorry conks out because the battery's flat we're the guys for you. However, when lorries trundled past the snakes would be shaken off the branches and often smashed through the windscreens of cars because of their hard heads. Using a forklift truck the gang spent the next hour transferring the bottles from the articulated lorry's 40 ft trailer into two stolen 16-tonne lorries. Cars, lorries, double decker buses, caravanettes, tractors, more lorries, horseboxes, and other cyclists seem to crowd around me, even on the minorest of minor roads. Some roads are completely unsuitable for lorries in the Moors and Dales. Buses, articulated lorries, dustcarts and family cars are all forced to mount it on a day-to-day basis, wrecking road surfaces, kerb stones and drains. Seizures in Scotland have shown that the Russian mafia disguise their contraband goods by hiding them in tons of scrap metal and rags inside container lorries. In a warehouse that could cover 24 football pitches, 19 miles of conveyors sort everything from toys to chairs before they are loaded onto lorries and shipped to stores. Furthermore, I lose count of the number of lorries which appear to love travelling in convoy, leaving no gaps in between in which to allow for overtaking. Instead, the fairs now had powerful diesel engines mounted on lorries. Willersey residents were hoping their campaign to stop heavy lorries rumbling through their village streets would move up a gear after a meeting last night. Road safety and pollution issues were the main bones of contention, with frequent tailbacks of lorries billowing fumes into people's homes, he said. One of the problems with the bus detector idea is that it might confuse buses with lorries and a method of dealing with that is also being looked into. Those worried about untidiness should try living next to a landfill site with the lorries, dust, seagulls, smells, ground water pollution and health risks that go with it. Elsewhere in Britain motorways and minor roads were closed as lorries overturned, trees were uprooted and chimney stacks were toppled by 90 mph gusts. The Ripon report suggests widespread use of sticks and electric goads, and says that some animals had to be dragged into and out of trucks and lorries. Thousands of lorries and trucks are being forced into provincial towns for rest stops and catering services, defeating the purpose of bypassing towns in the first place. Show More Sentences More than 15,000 motorists in the Bradford area face tough fines and even having their vehicles crushed if they fail to tax their cars and lorries. Company bosses said the payment was because they accepted that they should try to minimise the impact of quarry vehicles where heavy lorries used village roads. The scheme involves track large enough to take huge trains and wagons, which would carry heavy goods vehicles, taking lorries off the congested motorway system. Motorcycles, cars, tempos and lorries are vying for parking space. The bow doors would open, allowing the cargo of tanks, armoured cars, bulldozers or lorries to drive off, and the LST would then wait for the flood tide to float it off again. Fourteen council vans and lorries, and two fire tenders, staged a slow drive through the city centre tooting horns and winning support from the public. Tanker lorries fill up at the fuel terminals and deliver to petrol stations across the country but jet fuel is usually distributed through underground pipes. We expected to see great convoys of lorries and trucks emblazoned with UN initials juddering down the coastal road bearing relief and building materials. During the following five or six weeks hundreds of tons of turf must have been railed out of Bundoran, most days there were three lorries drawing steady. More than 180 firefighters fought a blaze that melted cars and lorries, saw half the town evacuated and sent up a plume of smoke that was visible 15 miles away. Despite police monitoring the number of overweight lorries using the B3080 when the restriction was introduced, some have not stopped flouting the rules. Some of the cars had been crushed to the size of a chair simply because of the massive weight and unstoppable momentum of heavy lorries from behind. Cyclists, horse carts, two-wheelers, three-wheelers and loaded lorries all jostled for their bit of space while horns blared and tempers got increasingly frayed. The heavy vehicles including lorries and buses make their condition worse. Armies made some use of lorries and staff cars, but practical cross-country vehicles, good roads and an associated infrastructure simply did not exist. The roads are not conducive to big lorries coming back and forth. The festival will begin on Friday, September 10, as military vehicles including tanks, half-tracks, lorries, jeeps and guns begin arriving in Morecambe. Cars and lorries were flashing their lights and beeping at me. There seemed to be hundreds of lorries with chillers, obviously carrying food or ingredients, as well as some with finished goods for supermarkets and other retailers. A RESIDENT has called for warning signs to prevent lorries getting stuck on a narrow village road. Show More Sentences While UK is member of European union, every month, around 177000 lorries and 208000 vans, and 1850000 cars cross that border. While UK is a member of European union, every month, around 177,000 lorries and 208,000 vans, and 1,850,000 cars cross that border. Some ferries carry mainly tourist traffic, but most also carry freight, and some are exclusively for the use of freight lorries. There were seemingly endless queues of lorries on the Dock Road stretched as far as the eye could see. After the journey, they are taken back to their lorries by bus again and are allowed to drive off. Police said they received a call from an HGV company at 2pm on Saturday, expressing concern one of its lorries had not returned to base. Buses and lorries chugging along residential roads in low gears will absolutely not be of benefit to young children playing out in the streets. Road chiefs have been told to have thousands of gritter lorries on standby. Police patrol officers are stopping and talking to lorries parked up in dual carriageways lay by to urge them to be vigilant. The BT Levio LWE130 powered pallet truck with on-board charging from Toyota is the ideal choice for Noble's fleet of lorries. Through the show, they pass on messages, joke about the makes of other lorries or let another driver know that they've passed them on the road. Other lorries were advised not to use the A697 and to instead use the A1 while a specialist team was called in to remove the lorry and its radioactive contents. Assessments should be carried out on trunk roads such as the A9 to see if parts can be derestricted to allow lorries to travel at 50mph rather than 40mph. In St Peter Port, the main town of Guernsey, some lorries lined up to load tomatoes for export to England were mistaken by the reconnaissance for troop carriers. The new guidance recognised that non-Cargill staff needed to be made aware of the risks of engulfment, and that hauliers should stay in their lorries. The fourth test had each presenter attempting to perform a hill start with their vehicles, and to encourage them, prized possessions were placed behind each of their lorries. Some residents in Wych-Elm Close, in Bilton, near Rugby, claim their houses shake when cars, lorries and buses negotiate the hump in Lawford Lane. Among the driving errors being targeted by the patrols will be tailgating by lorries, amber gamblers at lights and people who break rules at roundabouts. By the end of the 1960s, traffic congestion was causing problems for the market, which required increasingly large lorries for deliveries and distribution. They believe that urgent action needs to be taken to prevent accidents both to lorries and pedestrians who use the unadopted road while walking along the Colne Valley Way. Examples from Classical Literature Before alarming them I want to examine the contents of a few of the lorries. If there is no room on the lorries for any article of vertu, it goes on the tank. All the lorries in question had been in charge of a driver called Charles Fox. Second, they think it is the lorries because the drivers change the numbers. The roads are now packed with lorries and cars through which we can hardly pass. There shall likewise be delivered 5,000 motor lorries in good order, within the period of thirty-six days. There are enough gargantuan lorries thundering down this road as it is, causing pollution, congestion and noise to the residents. A driver and a drayman, who's in charge of all the paperwork, are given their orders and start loading up their lorries with beer. Some will end up in Calais, where at least 350 stowaways were turfed off British-bound lorries in four hours last week. Of the five lorries, two were loaded with firewood and three empty. The drivers of lorries and cars should be trained in map-reading. It was said that five lorries were ordered, but only three were sent. The lorries were to take away again everything they had just brought up. Extra security for lorries means the thousands of migrants could try to stow away in private vehicles, says a report today by the Home Affairs Committee. Find more words! 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