The vexed question of LHV’s – or Longer Heavier Vehicles – floats across my horizon, resulting – within seconds – in a state of incandescent irritability.

There is no, repeat no argument here. Forget congestion – the UK is a small island with too many vehicles, and congestion is a reasonably predictable outcome of this equation – the LHV argument is all about efficiency. If you don’t want to get stuck in a traffic jam in the UK c.2007, don’t get in your car. Go figure.

There appears to be a grudging acceptance on the part of most that the availability of cheap, relatively accessible oil is on the decline. Hence the apparent growth industry that is the writing and delivering of nonsensical press releases that now float seamlessly across my desk and into the shredder on a daily basis indicating that humanity can develop a renewable, cost-effective fuel source from old teabags / dead cats / PowerGen bills delete as applicable. Lies, all lies, and usually badly written ones at that.

LHVs – aka that which Dick Denby has banging on about for the past however so long offer a very simple solution to what is a very simple problem. They offer two loads worth of deliveries for the price – and more pertinently, the consumption - of around one tank of diesel. This is a good thing.

No doubt the BBC and the Daily Mail will dig up some monosyllabic muppet representing a half-baked and non-conceived campaign against larger lorries in order to demonstrate the likely ending of all that we hold dear as a result of allowing LHVs. I’d just point out that, having spent my formative years in this business being advised by an assortment of pustule-ridden snot-noses that "We’ve had bigger than that in here before driver, why only yesterday bloke backed the Queen Mary in here off his blind side without a shunt etc" it is readily apparent that the receiving end of the logistics biz is entirely ready for the advent of bigger trucks.

Sadly, the UK transport industry is not. Represented by a bunch of self-appointed buffoons who, in addition to falling into the category of washed-up has-beens in another place, also seem incapable of counting up to three without recourse to a study group and a Fisher-Price abacus, they are, predictably, getting in a muddle. Hence the blind preoccupation with the notion of reducing congestion: a view that is analogous to worrying about an in-growing toenail without due consideration of the impending amputation of the limb to which it is attached.

This should be an open goal for the road transport industry. There can be no argument against the LHV in a world in which oil stocks are plummeting. And yet, once again, those organisations that claim to act on behalf of that same industry are missing the point, the goal and ultimately, a huge opportunity to improve things.