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same endured concentrated took and dreadful between Eastbourne desperately even stretches still A curse upon whichever body was that caused the RHA and conferences to fall in the week ; nobody who has the 31 hours of really driving which it to commute between one the other along that south coast road Bournemouth and can doubt how the South Coast motorway is needed—though when the present M27 are done there will be a lot of pretty horrible motoring.
Still, having them in the same week does bring their affairs into sharp focus. A reporter trying to do the fly-on-the-wall trick tends to get a . • schizophrenic view of the freight industry ; it would have been fascinating to swop a few delegates to let them hear what the participants in the Eastbournemouth stakes were saying about each other.
Over in the West, the hauliers were raising their battle standards for an attack on the own-account men who dared to run their own transport— though they seemed to be in some doubt about what they really wanted, because with one breath they were saying what shocking people these traders were and in the next were discussing how to woo them on the " customer is always • right " principle.
Father East there was not the same heat on the subject but the FTA delegates were not slow with their laughter when – Martin Foulkes of the GLC, in a throwaway comment, referred to " the jungle equivalent of the FTA—I believe you call it the RHA."