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"All drivers must refuse to allow vehicles to be fitted with tachographs and any vehicle that comes ready fitted should not be driven with a disc in the clock," Jackson Moore, secretary of the United Road Transport Union, instructs members in Wheels, published by the union.
With characteristic statesmanship he adds: "It will probably make a hell of a mess of the stylus without a card (I hope)."
He follows this with a shaft of wit calculated to put Bob Hope out of business: "We are told that common ants love the wax coating on the discs so try breeding ants — they may be a new export to European drivers when they follow our examr not being prepared to acct dictat.'' Elsewhere, Wheels ref that "the maximum legal king week . . is to be red by a further three hours in J 1959." URTU has appan found a way of making ta graph clocks run backward attitude is certainly that bygone age.