I read with disgust the two letters replying to Hawk's comments about bus drivers (CM, October 28).
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I am a provincial coach driver operating into London regularly and, while I, too, have encountered bad driving from bus drivers. I have encountered it also in equal measure from car and lorry drivers.
Because very few drivers of any sort of vehicle are willing to give an inch to anyone else, and most drivers ignore the "Please let the bus go first" posters, buses are obliged to proceed as best they can. I would agree, though, that some do push their luck too far.
Your correspondent I. J. Henebery (CM, November 11) writes a most descriptive letter, showing by his apparent willingness to have an accident to assert his "rights" that he is the kind of cowboy driver this country can well do without, whatever the vehicle he drives.
As for Mr McKay (CM, November 25), the lowest form of person on the roads is, in fact, he or she who stands on his or her rights with no regard for other road users, regardless of vehicle size or type.
Buses and coaches have as real and vital a part to play in the transport of people as lorries of all sizes have in the transport of freight.
If we all pulled together, instead of trying to score points off each other, perhaps we could all do our respective jobs that much better, and, at the same time, give some relief to our frayed nerves.
J HENSON Maidstone.