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Although commercial and fleet members of the AA cannot take advantage of the Association's new one-in-three vehicle insurance plan, they will be glad to know that the AA is putting a lot of its 1969 expenditure into increasing roadside service, especially radiocontrolled facilities to attend breakdowns.
The Association's director-general, Alec Dune, last week reported "an enormous escalation" of breakdown calls, and early in December the London headquarters had its record day-1,684 breakdown calls in 24 hours. Because no less than 40 per cent of all breakdown calls originate in London and the South East, this is the area in which the patrol forces are to be particularly built up: but he assured us that the rest of the country, too, will be getting better service.
The scale of the problem is well illustrated by the fact that the AA received 1,600,000 calls for assistance last year—and from a membership of around 4m which includes a fair number of corn mercial transport concerns.