Soft centres ?
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Are British lorry drivers the softest in Europe ? No, please, I don't want your answers on a postcard, not even polite ones. And I have a valid reason for such an emotive question. A Dutch friend who's involved in road transport remarked on the great wave of special cabs and equipment with which the men being sent to the Middle East are about to be mollycoddled. Why, he asked, had British manufacturers (especially importers—including DAF !) spent so much time and money on Middle East cabs. This was uniquely British and had not happened anywhere else in Europe.
In Holland, which has arguably the most trucks on the Mid-East run, only standard trucks are used. Odd that the Continentals—who showed us the way on cab comfort—should have been left behind in this area.