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• What with all the fuss made by yourselves and other organisations within the industry about the BBC Truckers series I sat down to watch it ready to be really annoyed by it. OK. So some of the characters in the programme wouldn't be ideal representatives of the transport industry, but I'm left wondering what all the fuss was about.
It had about as much to do with trucking in the real world as Auf Wiedersen Pet had to do with the building trade, the Sweeney had to do with the police, or Triangle with ferry operators. American coroners probably get fed up with Quincey.
As it happens I don't think much of Truckers, not compared with Auf Wiedersehen Pet or the Sweeney, but come on, it's obviously not meant to be taken any more seriously than the other TV series set in various other industries and trades. It seems to me that everyone got so excited about the TV programme makers finally noticing trucks that we started taking ourselves a bit too seriously. After all, look what Grange Hill did to education, Open all Hours did to corner shop owners and if it comes to that, I wonder what the hotel trade thought of Fawlty Towers? I'm not the boss of a firm, just a driver, but! have been for several years and I take my job seriously. But come on, you've got to be pretty over-sensitive to take the telly so seriously! Keith Cowan Woolwich