WAITING AROUND • I read with interest the letter from Mr Mann (CM January 10), with relation to unloading times.

14th February 1987, Page 54

14th February 1987

Page 54

Page 54, 14th February 1987 — WAITING AROUND • I read with interest the letter from Mr Mann (CM January 10), with relation to unloading times.

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feel he was a lucky chap. We experience delays that are unbelievable at many large food wholesalers' so called ultra-efficient distribution centres.

I feel that the British haulage industry has become an extension of the food distributors' warehouse system.

I feel likewise that when a customer desires booking, then the operator should be allowed a "freefone" number to make the booking, and the driver likewise, to inform the customer of any delay en route.

1 often wonder what hap

pened to demurrage?

To use the modern Doverism, must we "dwell a little longer" at the whim of our customers? It would seem so! Perhaps I should change my CB handle to "Utopian Dreamer" instead of "Pumpkin".

Dougie Vick (Santa Fe) Cheltenham Spa Gloucestershire