• Judy Leden, writes sponsor Citroen, is the Women's Hang
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Gliding World Champion and is about to have the "honeymoon of a lifetime" when she hang glides from the crater of the world's highest active volcano in Ecuador.
But, hang it all — "honeymoon of a lifetime"? How many honeymoons does Citroen expect the good Judy to have? As she puts it so poignantly, "I know jumping off the top of a live volcano isn't everyone's idea of a perfect honeymoon, but I can't think of a better way to celebrate the start of our lives together."
Quite. Especially when the jump comes after a "gruelling six-hour trek from base camp at 15,000 feet through the night and over 5,000 feet of ice to the summit.
And to make sure they don't get cold feet, Judy and her Australian hubby-to-be will be joined by 16 similarly hardy folk. • One of the Hawk's fledglings recently went on a CPC course at the Freight Transport Association. Heaven forbid that anyone could accuse the organisation of never mentioning their competitors.
During a seminar on Operator Licensing, the lecturer asked the students if they knew what the RHA was. 'The Royal Horse Artillery?" piped up one budding transport manager.
• Roger Brothwood of Hovey Tracey, Devon, reports the frustration of being a tipper driver who daily passes the Kennford dynamic weigher on the A38 outside Exeter.
According to Roger it is common to see "eight or nine vehicles waiting to be weighed. The police officer directing the trucks off the dual-carriageway fills the available space then disappears into the building beside the weigher. . . reappearing when all have gone," he says.
Roger complains of being held up for 40 minutes at a time — despite passing the weigher up to seven times a day on local tipper work, "It is no use protesting I am empty, the officer just points to the weigher and waves me on in," A case of weighbridge too far, Roger? A fiver for your tip(per) — off anyway.