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DJapanese manufacturer i of foam padding based in Wales, Sekisui UK, has found that its employees' cars and customers' trucks using the same entrance do not mix well. But its application for a separate road to the A4054 to split the cars trid trucks may fail. Even the Crown Prosecution Service nearby could not get permission for a shortcut to its offices from the main road.
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5 he deregulation of motorway service areas could have far reaching effects for weary truck drivers. Waitresses at the Rock Island Diner (a US artifact now residing at J10/M42) get up for a spot of table-top jiving in between serving waffles and blueberry muffins (whatever they are). Am I the only traditionalist to mourn the decline in greasy spoon cafes?
What about the (paper)workers?
Molvo dealer MC Truck & Bus in Kent thought all its problems were solved when it ditched its paper-based sales-lead system and replaced it with an al singing, all dancing computerised diary.
However, sales reps protested. They were happier they said, with "hard copy", represented in the form of a Kalamazoo sales generator system, which didn't leave them without their diaries while information was being fed into the database.
So, welcome back Kalamazoo with its carbonised copies {remember carbon paper, anyone?) letting the rep keep a copy while HQ's computer munches away at the duplicate. The Hawk sympathises with this old fashioned approach to life. In many ways it's so much kinder, so much gentler. Whatever happened to cricket on the village green, Spangles and beef dripping on toast? { They've brought bock Spangles—Ed).
Caught in the act
mhue calmly taking a "comfort break" at an agricultural fair, the occupant of a portable toilet was surprised when the cubicle suddenly afforded a sensation of turbulence normally associated with aircraft toilets during a bad storm. No one's Fault really. How was the driver of the forklift truck to know that the loo was occupied when he picked it up and replaced it 15 feet away?
A bent for getting it wrong
ahis curious sign in West London refers not to Heathrow but Heston Aerodrome which pre-dated the UK's premier air gateway. Clearly its message is a little optimistic in its appreciation of driving standards.
Readers with a flying bent may recognise the outline of the aircraft which I'm told is a DH94 Moth Minor. More obvious is the crazy angle of the sign due to a buckling right-hand post. Maybe a distracted driver ran into it while reading the polite message above—after all, courtesy is so rare these days.
CM'S readership grows smaller
Dported trying to grapple with a bumper issue of CM is fouryear-old Tom Searle, son of Rachel Searle whose boyfriend, Neil Jarrold, works for Volvo dealer Duffields of East Ang ia. Neil claims that young Tom regularly advises him on which trucks to buy from CM's classified. I'm told this random method of choosing things works well in other areas too. The Hawk regularly borrows a toddler to pick the week's lottery numbers. When Ifind one that can count to more than 10, I'm by the Hawk sure I'll hit the jackpot.