Wotta lotta lizards A merican truckers are being plagued by
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prostitutes known as "Lot Lizards" because of the way they dart between trucks in parking lots, according to a survey in the Economist.
The resourceful women solicit the drivers in advance using CB, cellular telephones and satellite hook-ups asking if they want their cabs cleaned. Quite.
This being America, the opposition is equally eccentric. The Road Angel Truckers Centre in Brownstown, Illinois has set up as a Christian truck stop, offering "witnessing" along with morning coffee. And as headquarters of the Association of Christian Truckers, the centre's paper runs pieces such as "Jesus is the Best Truck Driver I know".
All a far cry from Dullsville UK, where we still concern ourselves with the mundane task of getting a truck from A to B with a rate that pays for the job considered to be a bonus. Bring on the lizards and the preachers, I say. Wagons roll o, this is not the local council forcibly removing travelling folk from one of its municipal sites, but magician Paul Daniel's splendid antique Gypsy caravan arriving at Chiltern Open Air Museum in Buckinghamshire. The celebrity donated the caravan with assistance from Amersham-based Boughton International, which supplied a trailer incorporating its Ampliroll Hook Loading System, diverted from its usual duties of transporting waste containers, to bring a little magic into people's lives.
Sorry, I'll read that again filruckers arriving at this bridge must have wondered it they were wide awake — at last a kindly authority had seen fit to provide a bridge open only to large vehicles and banning most, if not all, private cars. Surely some mistake? Yes, the sign should have read "Restricted to vehicles over 6'6" MAXIMUM." Whoops — hope nobody got stuck.
It takes Allsorts Nurrently trunking up and down the motorways are these newly liveried Bassett's Liquorice Allsorts trunkers, spreading a sweet message, wherever they're seen. The giant sweets are reproduced on 3M Scotchcal self-adhesive vinyl material by Vinyl Graphics, and mounted on the painted black background of the trunkers. Those of us whose memory of Allsorts goes back to the days when they were weighed by the quarter into brown paper bags will get an attack of the munchies everytime we see one of these lorries: No doubt that's the idea. Competition winners Nongratulations to Andy Pumphrey of Top Mark Vehicle Contracts, winner of CM'S competition for a, Groeneveld Automatic Greasing System worth up to £1,000 (CM 15-21 Oct 1992).
Runners up received a driver's overnight holdall: Andrew Bradbury, Stoke-on-Trent; Nigel Fowler, RJ Fowler, Somerset; I Clark, McNab & Weir, Scotland; JW Lawley, Worcester; Brian Honey, ECC International, Cornwall; Mrs G Stennett, Stennett Transport, Bury St Edmunds; Gordon Vine, Dodds Haulage, Herts; Ian Howatson, Benjamin Shaw, Huddersfield; M O'Connor, TransEuropean Heavy Haulage, Southampton; B Percy, Unigate Dairies, Hants; Mark House, Tony House Transport, Cardiff; Derek Howard, Charringtons Solid Fuel, Cambs; LJ Toseland, Toseland's Building Supplies, Northants; T Buckle, Rank Hovis, Berks; RA Sykes, Sykes Bros Transport, North Yorks; MW Wreford, SW Wreford, Northampton; Bruce Thorne11, Bristol; RF Reyner, Geoffrey Reyner, Manchester.
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