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• On average the brakes of commercial vehicles were far better than the brakes of private cars, said Mr. J. Male, chairman of the West Midlands area of the Road Haulage Association last Friday. Mr. Male was speaking at the annual dinner of the Coventry, Rugby and North Warkwickshire sub-area of the Association and was defending lorry drivers against the unfavourable comments that had been made regarding their part in the multiple pile-ups on the motorways on recent foggy days.
The ccimrnercial vehicle driver, he continued, had a pride in his job and had a personal interest in seeing to it that his machine was in a fit and proper condition to drive. In 1967 the proportion of commercial vehicles involved in accidents was six per cent of the total, cars and taxis accounting for 59 per cent.
Plating and testing was a favourable factor in promoting driver efficiency and the TML would also help.
In an earlier speech, Mr. W. F. Burdett, Lord Mayor of Coventry, had appealed to operators to improve the security of their vehicles against theft and hijacking. He said that lorries had a very good accident record considering the big mileages they covered. Changes were often made to roads in large towns without adequate signposting and this often created unnecessary difficulties for dr+verS.