Carbon Emissions – Older lorry’s are bad for the bad environment in many ways. Especially Diesel lorry’s polluting the air with green house gases, which is contributing to climate change. All new lorry’s are designed to realise less harmful gases to the environment. As the government are trying to stop the use of older lorry e.g. Ultra low emission zone, which puts a fee on lorry’s entering parts of London. This makes it harder to sell older lorry’s as they are considered bad for environment.
High Repair Costs – Say the transmission or engine failed and they needed repairing this would be very expensive as they would have to dismantled most of lorry to be able to repair it. Plus the labour costs. This way when there starts to be high costs you should scrap your lorry and buy and replacement one.
Rust – Rust is big problem on older lorries affecting the framework and putting holes in the lorry.