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No person is more
interested and most anxious about the finance to be found for the replacement of vehicles than I, as expressed in CM edition dated October 22. While I respect Mr Silbermann's effort to publicise the problem, there is no doubt as to where the cash has to come from. However, very few hauliers pay any attention to those warnings and carry on haphazardly to the detriment of those who realise future replacement is a serious problem but can do very little ratewise due to being overwhelmingly outnumbered.
No amount of preaching will convince the unpreachable, Mr Silbermann, as they will continue to do as they wish and I suggest you give these people enough rope to hang themselves, thus killing many birds with one stone.
Generally hauliers love to moan and groan day in and day out and are in fact in their glory stretching the law, their drivers and their vehicles to the utmost in order to make ends meet.
May I suggest from now on you say very little, allow the smarties to thrash one another into the ground, hence leaving much more space for those with common sense to manoeuvre.
Very little progress will be made in this field until such time as work becomes more plentiful and that will not happen until, probably, May, 1978. People disregarding these warnings may win the odd race. However, they will never in the end beat facts and figures.
Time and effort would be much better spent advising members to scrap or export their second-hand vehicles, blocking one easy route into the trade and rate cutting. R. R. WILSON, M. A. Wilson & Sons (Haulage) Ltd, Dunfermline