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D u r heading "Coachmen slow 1 new regs(CM, February 9, age 5) was quite unfair to )ach operators. Gwilym oberts, MP, may have told ransport Under Secretary )hn Horam that he regarded -ogress on new safety meas.es as being slow. He did not, )wever, blame the operators. Even so, it is more important get things right than merely to ake a show of change for lange's sake. Many criticisms the psv industry have been notional and ill-informed, the solutionsoften being no betr. Then there is danger of anufacturers wastefully invesrig in new British safety quirements which, within a !ar or so, may conflict with )ecifications imposed by irope.
Ironically, a compensating am headed Psv safety wrovesappeared in the me issue on a freight news ige. So let us keep a sense of oportion. As Gwilym Roberts lows (Mr Horam told him last ily), the psv user is six times fer than the car user — and at margin cannot be a statisti1 distortion. Good commercial actice is better than mere gulations.
ENNIS QUIN, T, London WC2
Quin should be delighted that we Ide space on a "freight page" to rry a complimentary psv news )ry. If he would rather we ignored ;good news, perhaps he will tell us, I our policy is to keep the sense of )portion which he is calling for. —