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BEG LEAVE to suggest that our editorial comment (CM, Aarch 21), that the effects of the ludget on transport running :osts were being exaggerated ind would simply be passed on 'down the line", demonstrates a :ertain lack of reality on your }art.
While this assumption is no Joubt true in the public sector ind will be reflected by ncreased bus fares and so on, I :annot see the private sector )uyer of transport services )eing willing (or able) to accept hese increases on the smug issumption that he will simply )e able to pass them on.
Certainly in my own :ompany's case (we are themical merchants in the :ompetitive industrial solvents narket and our natural :ompetitors are the major )etroleum companies), both )urselves and the hauliers we }ire vehicles from will be left to lhoulder virtually all of the 3urden between us.
I feel certain that in these lepressed times the same will De true in many other sections of ndustry the buck will stop }Imost at the beginning of the