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It's yet another nail in the coffin

28th September 2006
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READ WITH interest your roadtest on the new VW Crafter (CM 31 August). It made good reading as lam the owner of an -unloved"VW LT—your quote. not mine. What has the LT done to cause such offence?

1 have owned nine LTs over the past 25 years; the present one is a four-year-old LT46 flatback. It has done 280,000 miles but still goes and pulls as it did when it was new. I have waited for the new Crafter to come along and would have had one if there wasn't the need for a limiter.

1 am not against limiters per se — hut you have to ask why 56mph? I don't speed; it's my van and I pay the diesel bills .Why not instead limit them to 65mph? It's not overly fast and that way you can avoid bunching and get out of the way of similarly limited trucks.

You wonder what other drivers will think when they realise it's a Transit-type van that's been holding them up when I've been in lane two trying to pass a truck. It's just another nail in the coffin of small operators: the cost of the limiter to find and the loss of the work you can no longer get to.

The funny thing is that if downplate the vehicle to 3.5 tonnes then I don't need a limiter. So what difference does that extra 900kg make?

Graham Marra!!

GS Marra!! Transport Yorkshire

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