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ALTHOUGH temporarily residing in Canada, I am able to keep up with what's happening in the commercial vehicle field throughout your excellent publication.
During the last few months I have been reading with interest about the differences between bus drivers and lorry drivers.
Unfortunately, with the volume of traffic on Britain's roads I suppose it's inevitable that conflicts do arise from time to time, but we are all in the same field, whether it be goods or people, so let's try and understand each others' point of view.
I know it's hard for a hgv driver to bite his tongue when a bus driver seems just to put his indicator on and pull out, but having been employed in both fields, I am inclined to go along with the theory that the bus driver looks on the lorry driver as a colleague and a professional who realises his predicament — namely that he is on a schedule — and will let him in.
Of course there are poor examples on both sides, and as for the idiot who wrote that he will keep going regardless and doesn't care if he tears the mirrors off the bus as he has a vehicle big enough to learn these bus drivers a lesson (or words to that effect), I hope for his sake and everyone else's that the licensing authority has seen fit to lift his licence.
In Canada I suppose the same situation exists and again I have seen poor examples on both sides, but by and large the -truck jockeysseem to be a pretty tolerant lot and often flash the bus out. Also the buses have subtle little messages like "help my driver stay on time thank you-.
I am in a unique position — I drive a Bristol LD6G Decker, so I more or less have to rely on the understanding of others, being a right-hand drive on the _right-hand side of the road.
A. P. ROSSITER, Cornwall St, Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia, Canada.