The impossible takes a little longer
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in the event of a driver falling sick. All will have travelled the various routes many times in the six years that we have been operating.
This will be the lot of the fast escort vehicle; in the event of a unit becoming totally immobilised through want of vital spares, patrolling the route will be a heavy recovery/tractive unit, which will tackle the more difficult recovery and repair operations. Meanwhile, the fast escort vehicle will notify the company concerned, and arrange for the collection and delivery of the parts required.
Although we can give no written guarantees for our service, we feel the operator travelling with an escorted convoy, would have at least a 100 per cent better chance of success. Our motto in this undertaking is to be : "The impossible takes a little longer." D. NORRIS, Africanus, Henfielci, Sussex.
[We are, of course, all in favour of improving this country's balance of payments hosition. However, the article by David Dean (October /0) on trunhing to Nigeria in no way suggested that this haul is impossible; if the article had it could not have been accurate. But we have since (October 31) had to warn readers driving out there to get immunised against malaria first.—Ed.1