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T read with amazement the I report in your issue 11-17 May that the Illegal Operations Working Group (10WG) recommends a softly, softly approach to law breakers. At a time when our industry is riddled with the cancer of cheating and fiddling, the last thing it needs is this opting out by authority
I have been involved in the haulage industry for over 25 years. During that time we have had to endure green lobbyists, excessive taxes, under-investment, political games and farcical rules and regulations.
How have we as a major industry fought against this unrelenting assault? We have become more entrenched and insular than ever. We have encouraged law breakers and law breaking as our defence against the unfairness of "the system".
Now the norm in the industry is the law breaker. After all we have denigrated our profession to such an extent, how can most people make a living (let alone a profit), unless they cheat?
Unless the Vehicle Inspectorate takes a really tough stance against all law breakers—be they tachograph offenders. 0licence or vehicle excise duty cheats—this once professional industry will continue going the same way as at present, down the pan? R J Edgley
OKL Distribution, King's Lynn, Norton?.