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Picture imperfect
Take a stroll with us through the little side roads of haulage: the diversions and detours, the quirky, the quixotic and the downright strange...
On the Margin, great corpulent blob that we are, has an inordinate amount of trouble typing sometimes. With our enormous sausage-like lingers there's a tendency to mash clumps of keysd togethdergt2. So rathe44r than beautifully crafted prose, we get something that looks as though its beer knocked together by a particularly imaginative chimp with access to typewriter and a large bottle of gin.
Which means we can only sympathise with the poor mites at PR firm M1 Marketing. A news release wafted onto our des' from M1 the other week, written on behalf of SOR refrigerated vehicles. It boasted about a sale to Wyboston, Beds-based haulier HE Payne, and waxed lyrical about the company for the next page and a half. So far, so uneventful, I hear you say when do we get to the 'fat man's fingers' bit?
Lett have a look at the photographic evidence. Along with the press release was a nice picture of one of HE Payne 's trucks, proudly showing off its new trailer, like a surgically enhanced lady posing for the cameras. But on closer examination, it wasn The photo was, in fact, this nice snap of a vehicle belonging to rival haulage firm Fowler-Welch Coolchain. Which probably isn't what SOR or HE Payne were expecting.
Our congratulations this week are extended to Jon Clarke, Brittany Ferries' highly capable and charming head of freight. Congratulations because Mr Clarke has managed 30 years at the Poole. Dorset-based firm, having done, seemingly, every job under the sun at the company from cabin boy to tea boy (if you'll pardon the crudely crowbarred-in naval term). If he's to be believed, he was only employed on the strength of his tea-makinc ability ("I told them you needed to warm the pot first and they gay me the job.") Oh. and we hope the car gets better soon, Jon.