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Since having had a letter lished recently concerning orting a tractor unit and the 'yrs at Dover (at that time ,as about eight hours) 1 e done better. This time it k 221/2 hours. Obviously, I ; not alone; some freight
s recorded 30 hours. In day and age this is surely culous.
n Calais the Customs close two hours at lunchtime. I eve they also shut down at it, yet there does not rn to be any problem re. At Dover it is a 24-hour :ration: surely this calls for re staff at Dover. The cost raving a 240,000 unit with a rer and trailer standing for t length of time cannot be tified. I think if Maggie Id sort this one out she uld win a lot of votes. n the meantime 1 think she I better forget the tunnel. t only will trucks be queued :k to the Dartford Tunnel, whole of Kent will be .ded for parking incoming tides. I think this must 'ely call for more use of ind clearing points. Perhaps stoms have a vested inest in the new Wheelhouse it must be making a bomb :h all these delays, as must idsh Telecom with phone Is from frustrated emyers and drivers.
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if any of your reporters go Dover tell them to take te of the ditty on the Wheel usenotice board about Cusns officers. One line I member was to the effect It if Noah's Ark had docked Dover the whole course of ;tory would have been al-ed.