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• I read with interest your editorial on the LDoY competition for 1987 and agree with the majority of your points on what the competition needs in order to survive. You, however, missed out a vital component when you went into raptures over its 'needs'. The point is, the LDoY contest needs people like yourselves who have the `eye' of the industry and general public to give the competition the publicity it rightly deserves.
Since Commercial Motor pulled out of sponsorship it does not give you the right to ignore what is happening in the whole country from April to September of each year at regional centres and the finals. Your lack of support in publicising events, results and a preview of the finals should be criticised along with Motor Transport. If you gave the same publicity to the good parts of the industry as you do to the disasters, then the whole industry would be better informed as to why drivers and operators spend hours teaching drivers the theory and practical training that is the climax of the LDoY finals. We would also probably then have the support and sponsorship the competition rightly deserves.
R Turnbull Highburton, Huddersfield.