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UNSELLING "caution when king comments on the lulagel rate situation," the !ight Transport Association ms that "no simplistic mouncement can do justice to omplex problem." Whether it iimplistic or not, I have no 3itation in saying that the sociation's analysis of rates in 112 months to June shows it some hauliers are, in Lord ilsha.m's phrase, plain nkers.
vlental instability can be the ly explanation of rate
luctions of more than 10 per it during a period when the erating costs of the heaviest ries rose by about 71/2 per it and those of lighter vehicles 61/2 per cent.
klthough out of the FTA's enple, some two-thirds of rates ire raised, mostly by less than ler cent and thus not keeping with inflation, a fifth were tually cut. There is one born ery minute and the road uLage industry finds two of am.
:CORDING to the Daily legraph, my favourite puzzle per, British Rail is "obliged to wide lavatories at all stations, a exceptions being unnamed itions." These, to which blank kets are issued, are in places th unpronounceable names.