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20th November 2003
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No football? Sigh...

Take a stroll with us through the untravelled bywE of road transport; the diversions and detours, the quirky, the quixotic and the downright strange...

There's a distinct absence of any Premiership football this weekend, so well have to can any tenuous, transport-reli links. And of course we're too lazy and glory-obsessed k consider the lower leagues. Yes, we know Macclesfield E Carlisle have notable haulage sponsors -we're just a little confused about what divisions exist when you peer beneath Leeds United.

But salvation comes our way from Rat vans. We'll six you the gushing of the press release which, after several readings, is enough to induce a vaguely unclean feeling. Suffice to say that it's come up with a series of adverts offering fictitious features on its vans that correspond witt characteristics of certain teams. For example, NewcastlE United's has bars on its windows in case any of its team t a brush with the law (again) and Arsenal's has blacked-o windows as a link to its manager's selective myopia, or o) developed sense of irony, depending on how you look at We've said it before and we'll say it again Bob Russi you have no shame. He is the most affable man in the wlgosh-darn' haulage industry. He has single-handedly bu a transport empire that spans the globe. It earns him trillic every year and he lives in a giant palace made entirely of five pound notes. It sits somewhere in greater Bristol and it, he dines exclusively on haunch of venison from his owl personal herd (we imagine, anyway). But there is no excuse for that tie. There is flamboyant, there is cuttingedge stylish and there is, it appears, something that ran in the wash. And while we're here, congratulations to Bob Rushworth of Pennine Parcels, pictured receiving his special recognition award from Palletline's colourful boss.

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