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ROUTIERS SIGNPOST ME ROAD AHEAD • I write with regard to the irticle on the UICR (CM 15-21 une), and I would like to ;lardy a few points.
Routiers do not run ransport cafes in Britain. We lo from time to time appoint !stablishments to be Routiers fruckstops in addition to our -egular hotel and restaurant icensing. However, the ruckstops are independently lin by the owning company ;oncerned. We are also trying Try hard to provide higher tandards of service for zofesskmal drivers along the ines of European and kmerican Truckstops.
Regarding dates, the British 'eats of The Routiers World )riving Championships are 29 und 30 July 1989 to be held at 3P Truckstop, Alconbury. Also he British Championships are o be held in 1991 rather than iext year. This year's French ;hampionships take place on !2, 23 and 24 September 1989 and not 2-4 September.
Most important of all however, is that the UICR and the RDC do not feel that more road building in London and within the M25 ring will be of any benefit, though we do advocate better signposting. Andrew Phillips Marketing Manager, Routiers Driving Club, 354 Fulham Road, London.
PC IN THE HOT SEAT • Your day out with the Metropolitan Police did not do anything to cheer me up on Friday 7 July. And police officers like PC Les Crossland do not help the lorry driver of today who has to contend with motorways that are a nightmare with massive holdups at road works. Today's driver also has more work to do with more deliveries on his lorry than five years ago.
When a driver forgets to switch the tacho mode from rest to drive, it's because he has been in a motorway jam for two hours and is worried that he is not going to make anything like even half his deliveries. It is so easy to forget to switch the mode.
PC Crossland should try a week on a 40-footer with 30 drops in Wembley and London where it is impossible to turn or park, and see if he forgets to switch the mode once or twice a week.
John Woods Bolton, Lancs.
TACHO SWITCH OFF • Drivers finer' between £150 and 2200 for forgetting to operate their tachograph mode switch (Candid Camera motorway police feature CM 812 July issue) — what a horror story!
"You cannot be serious man" — sometimes heard on the that famous Centre Court — would seem to be more appropriate for Epping Magistrates Court.
I have never seen much point in having a mode switch anyway as driving time is, of course, recorded regardless. I am sure the Epping magistrates are not aware of this.
The practical use of the mode switch can only be to differentiate between "on road" and "off road" driving, and "on" or "off duty" breaks, but this must surely be a legal nicety to say the least.
Its a discouraging business, this haulage game.
Robert Foster Ditton Priors, Shropshire