Why didn't he sign his name?
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WHY, OH WHY did I ask "Successful Transport Business Man" (January 29) to supply his name and address for the 1,000word anonymous letter that he sent? He has responded with one double the length and still unsigned.
His first effusion was a tirade against the regulation of transport and particularly the limitation of drivers' hours. Writing with the penetrating insight of four years' experience, he told operators: "If you could just see yourselves from the outside, you would be amazed at how stupid you look."
He did not sign and address his letter "because I don't need a silly little man with no idea of how to run a business coming round to look at tachographs that have long since been thrown in the bin where they belong." Well, he wouldn't would he.
In his second letter, contempt for authority is replaced by fear. "The reason that I don't want to provide my name and address is that I am afraid of the Ministry" he says. And as he leads me to believe that, along with other small transport businesses, he survives only by breaking the law, both his anxiety and reticence are understandable.
Uneasy lies the head that listens at night for the menacing footsteps and the savage knock of black-leather-coated David Howell and his heavy gang.