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Bloggers and Ground Control
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-Spleens are being vented on Roadtransport.com's blogs and Truck\et UK
goes all Ashes to Ashes with nostalgia for the baddest trucks of the '80s
ROADTRANSPORT.COM is always there with the latest stories and a ready source of past stories, if you're searching for information on a particular subject. But for a ramble through the topics that concern some of 8 our best writers, take a look at Road transport.com's blogs. `j There's a new contributor to cn the Operator's Voice blog: Paul McBride, who has a small courier business. He talks of customers who dernandjust in time' delivery, then keep his drivers hanging about waiting for a drop: "But business is business and I know that even though those urgent plastic thingys are not that urgent after all, when my customer phones me up next week in a panic, yet again Twill drag myself out of bed and head for Wiltshi re... with a good book to read."
And David Preston, MD of Prestons of Potto, uses the same blog to say a few sharp words bout technology: The added :omplexity of a modern truck ieems to make it more unreliable .han one of 10 years ago."
It seems drivers want more, -oo."Drivers these days demand :ooking and food storage facilities .hat would satisfy Nigella, and mtertainment packages better han most rap stars' limousines. Fhe resulting lack of electrical ;apacity to satisfy this usually .esults in a very expensive jumptart at South Mimms services." adds. "Perhaps. like a caravan park, lorry parks could provide hook-up points to plug the trucks into." Meanwhile. in the Truck & Van blog, Will Shiers is scathing about the Rootes Group -albeit a few years too late: "The Trade Descriptions Act wasn't introduced until 1968 which is fortunate for the Rootes Group, who are clearly ignoring it with this advert. I mean, I definitely don't remember the Commer Cob being 17 foot long with sleek, low-slung sportscar styling..."
Oliver Dixon's World Trucks blog has news of manufacturers at home and abroad: "Anonymous comments from within Caterpillar tell us straight; the company is on the verge of announcing a bid agreed or otherwise, though we suspect the former for Navistar."