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Inside Influence
By the Hawk
MEMBER of the tyre trade was so pleased with last week's second leader attacking the Tyre Manufacturers' Confer: that he took the trouble to make a long-distance telephone of congratulation lasting about 20 minutes. The article he said, been received with enthusiasm by others in a tar position to himself.
e now wants The Commercial Motor to rally in support of vidual tyre makers who are compelled by chassis manufacrs to supply tyres which he believes are too small for the Tyre companies were, he claimed, afraid to make a stand nst a penny-wise policy by vehicle makers, because they id lose valuable orders. What is the answer to that?
tpired Leakage
EAKERS at functions of the Road Haulage Association are beginning to quote from the results of a survey )ng-distance haulage made by the R.H.A. The findings are to be published in full, but apparently extracts are to be At ed to leak out.
yen more convincing material will be available when the liter of Transport publishes the report of the inquiry into 1 transport movements made last April. This, of course, upposes that the information will be released before it is of date.
Target
assured that a report (published elsewhere) that no insport man is included in the short list of candidates for the of secretary of the Metropolitan and South Eastern Area te R.H.A., is well wide of the mark. Moreover, there is no :cry in interviewing applicants at headquarters, rather than re area office. it happens to be more convenient to do so.
t Riddle
ME employers are aggrieved by the advice given by a octor in a television interview last week. He apparently mrnended those who had influenza to go to bed for a week not to call the doctor unless their temperatures rose unduly. advice has been construed as an invitation to employees to a week off, even if they have recovered after three days, 'ere is, of course, another small point. How can the sufferer he necessary medical certificate without calling the doctor, or how can a doctor write a certificate after a patient whom he did not attend has recovered?
For Services Rendered
THE presentation to Mr. J. H. Male of the insignia of honorary membership in recognition of his services to the Road Haulage Association will be the highlight of the West Midland Area's dinner at Birmingham on April 9. Appropriately, the ceremony will be performed by Mr. R. N. Ingram. the national chairman, also a West Midland Area member.
C15 Mirror IS an operator who has heen brought before the courts for 59 offences in 12 years entitled to regard himself as being victimized by the police? One who confesses to this record complains indignantly that he has been fined £10, and his driver £5, for using a vehicle with only one mirror, instead of two. Is this a record?