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It's hard to see the sense in it
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Sandy Bruce queries the speed limit and why Alistair Darling has spent as much to argue against an essential user rebate as the concession itself would have cost.
Ishould like to add some weight to CM'S current campaign for an increase in the speed limit to 50mph for HGVs on single-carriageway A-roads. While none of us wants to take any action to endanger public safety on our roads we have to take on board the circumstances in which we operate today.
Never have vehicles been better designed and structured with braking, steering and lighting characteristics of a standard well ahead of that which was in place when the original speed limits were set. Vehicles perceived to be dawdling along at 40mph are now generating incredible levels of that new and very serious phenomenon road rage. I know of a number of drivers who have fallen foul of the law driving in the low 40s, but who honestly cannot believe that the law makes sense. Please give CM your support in this very sensible cause.
Allof you will have noted in CM and the national press that, following intense pressure from the French transport industry, the French Government has undertaken that shortly it will make a substantial reduction in fuel taxation.The level of reduction is reported to be in the order of £259m. For those of you who read the Sunday Telegraph you may have noticed an article stating that the Department for Transport under the direction of Alistair Darling has spent £293.6m on consultants in one year. I can see no evidence of this money ever reaching the road network or the industry at large.
Regular readers will have noticed that in my first submission to CMin October !gave a little, profile of our company's size and structure in which our depots at Hull and Ford were mentioned. Since the article was published, I have taken some serious verbal abuse from our staff at Coatbridge depot asking if I had forgotten themas if I could and I have had to explain that this omission was no more than a small printing error. I am pleased to be able to advise the 29 staff concerned that! have checked the matter out in great detail and can confirm that the depot has not been closed. I hope this was not the cause of too many sleepless nights.
0 ctober has been a funny month for our company and it appears that it is becoming a month in which larger than ever numbers of people are taking a serious break at halfterni.The effect of this holiday seems to be affecting our operation in a similar way, albeit to a slightly lesser extent, as Christmas. A number of our customers in a range. of industries have stated that they have been experiencing the same thing and! have to wonder whether it is just us, or do others have to cope with this problem? s