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The reason for the heavy truck use has more to do with the fact that many places don't have freight services - large chunks of rural Britain haven't seen freight trains for many years. Many smaller lines were also closed during the Beeching cuts of the '60s - the government of the time was of the opinion that road transport was the better option for both freight and passenger. They rather failed to spot the problem here in that we're now being told to use our cars less but often have little real alternative, especially in the areas that were hit hardest by Beeching. Interestingly we are seeing a few new efforts to haul by rail - in my part of the world there was a recent trial of Network Rail's swapbody diesel railcars hauling timber. Hopefully it'll catch on as those timber trucks are a real pain on twisting roads!
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