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Why is it that Britain, which has the most road-oriented transport system in Europe fails in the provision of good cafés and accommodation for commercial drivers?
In this country we are so fond of blaming governments, yet surely here it is the people's fault. My £6,000-plus a year driver colleagues complain that they have a hard life (wait till they become transport managers!) yet you never hear of one putting his money into a drivers' café (there are such things as bank loans and mortgages).
I read your recent report on Les Routiers (CM December 8). They handle these things much better in France. The other day I was in Dover armed with the Guide des Relais Routiers, but the 1,1976 edition. Anyway, when I called at The Swingate Inn, the first of Les Routiers in the UK, I understand, I was told they had not been members for years. Another place in Dover had a note on the door to the effect that no one would be in for three or four hours. At least they're honest in Dover. No one would dare put up such a sign in. Manchester if they wanted find what they left behind wh they came back.
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