April Fool reveals its true colours
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HAVING READ YOUR article 'EU seeks legislative cure for unsafe vehicle liveries', (CM 1 April). I realised it was dated 1 April and fully expected to read in the next edition that the whole thing was a hoax, but no. it's actually genuine.
The lunatics in the ELI asylum have run out of hoops for the transport industry to jump through, so they've thought up a new one hidden away behind that tired old excuse, safety Although reading a number plate at 20m is considered proof that your eyesight is good enough to drive, you might not notice a 2.5m-wide, 4.8m-high, 165m-long truck if it's the wrong colour! So, regardless of how long your carefully chosen livery has been your most obvious public identity and what your own accident record is, from January 2012 you might have to change.
Look out Stobart, Norbert Dentressangie and all you other fleet operators more unnecessary legislation with its unwelcome cost is heading your way, just when our leaders are advising that you need to eliminate unnecessary cost to offset the endless fuel taxation they keep piling on. If Gordon Brown's government is reelected. it's just the kind of control and bureaucracy they relish, and think of the additional VAT they will be able to collect on all those repaints Mike Davies Waterloovi lie Ed's note: We had to break the news to Mike that the Tricolour Directive was indeed an April Fool — we couldn't pass up one of the rare occasions that CM actually comes out on the first. Thankfully Mike., and many more of you who said the same things, took it in good spirits: Nice one! You bunch of jokers, we need all the laughs we can get. Keep smiling. Mike