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Reading annual reports is a pastim( can live without, but the Westei Traffic Area Maintenance Con mittee's ninth report is the exceptic to the rule. In it, Len Matthews, ti chairman, embarks on his favouri theme: vehicle spares, or rather ti lack of them. And as well as beatir the manufacturers about the heal the normally placid Len issues warning to the SMMT that if th( don't do something about it, then ti next complaint will be made direct 1 Fred Mulley. Full marks are given I BLMC who sent R. Atkins, the general sales manager (truc division), into the lion's den la week, to meet the operators on the own ground. I hear it was a lively bt productive affair.
Private garages also feature in tt: report. The Committee has learne thai garages in the area have take out insurance policies to cover then selves against negligence or ba workmanship on their part. spokesman at the Motor Agen Association tells me that this normal practice. It seems they can lose. If they do a good job they g( paid; if they do a bad job they gt paid, and the insurance compan forks out on a claim. But as Le points out, only after the operatoi have been involved in lengthy an
costly action. The Hawl