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Hgv v psv driving
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In reply to the letter, "A matter of licences" (CM April 13), of course there is a difference between hgv and psv drivers — the two jobs are completely different. Anybody should realize that there is a difference between driving a load that has had to be roped and sheeted, and people who get on themselves and if necessary then hang on.
We hgv men are proud of our jobs. What right has a man who does one form of work to expect to do another's without the same qualifications? Hgv men are a class on their own and always have been; no bus driver has the right to push his way into our industry without .first taking an hgv test.
All this business about psv men not being well paid is nonsense. At Alder Valley in Reading, Berkshire, and Aldershot, Hampshire, for example, firms are crying out for men and paying well.
As for hiring a wagon in order to take the hgv test, who does not? Either we drivers or our employers had to.
When the driver learns things about weight transfer, chains, and movement of load in transit and what different loads will do to vehicles, and a lot of other points too numerous to mention, he will know why he is a psv man and not an hgv man.
RALPH CLAYTON, Peters field, Hants.