A multi-million pound timber haulage route designed to relieve pressure on Scottish rural roads is not being used, according to a report in the Dumfries Standard.
The £4.7m route in Eskdalemuir was opened in the summer of 2009 and was designed to remove 10,000 lorry movements annually from the area.
According to the paper, residents have been complaining that timber lorries, often in convoy, are still passing through Eskdalemuir.
Local MP David Mundell is calling for enforcement action and for the forestry sector, the council and timber haulage contractors to work together.
The haulage route project was led and managed by UPM Tilhill on behalf of private forest owners, Forestry Commission Scotland and the local authority.
It was hailed as an ideal model of how the government and the private sector could work together to help the timber industry develop more sustainable ways of working.
