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I am in complete agreement with "a fed-up operator" (CM, December 9) that the time has come for operators and workers, who have to try to fight their way through the tangled web of legislation heaped upon them by the Department of Transport and the EEC, to say enough is enough and cease their operations.
It would be extremely interesting to see just how long the Government and country could manage without road transport — one week or two weeks at the most! It seems to me that they just do not want road haulage at all.
I wonder how the EEC officials who conjure up all these rules would take to having a tacho strapped to their backs to record their total working time including stoppages for tea or schnapps, toilet time, dozing time, etc. I do not think they would be so keen!
Road haulage is the only industry not grant-aided. Will the EEC subsidise the cost of either buying extra vehicles or employing extra drivers to do the same work as we do now We are pushed from pillar to post by the DTp, DoE officials, anti-lorry brigades, private motorists, and environmentalists.
I feel that every operator should stand firm and say, "No, we will not implement the new rules, but will carry on with the existing ones."
CHRISTIAN MEYER, Hull.