Free-range for cowboys
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Iread with interest the Legal Bulletin about VED, SORN etc and the penalties for offenders (CM 12-18 Feb). I would ask the question to the police, the VI and the Traffic Commissioners what they can do about the small number of hauliers who do not bother with anything except the truck starting, and doing a day's work
For those of us who do it all by the book and accept the verdict of the above three bodies, most of the time with good grace, it enrages me to see a certain haulier, now on the third or fourth phoenix company and with their trucks with a "clean screen", "cherry fuel" and ministry tickets about brakes from last year in the ashtray. What can you do about these "operators"? Can you take these trucks off the road? Can you take them out of the cabs and keep them out until they pay up? Can you go to their main customers and tell them not to use a cowboy outfit? Not at all, it would seem, as they are into the third year that I know of. For those of you thinking he's got the hump because that lot are having an "earner", wait till the cable layers are in your area and these cowboys start carving up your rates. Name and address supplied.