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'Transportants' on the loose

3rd April 1982, Page 45
3rd April 1982
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Page 45, 3rd April 1982 — 'Transportants' on the loose
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

IT'S HAPPENED at last. The dreaded "transportant", to describe a transport expert, has escaped into operational service. National Carriers' group managing director, Brian Hayward (how could he?), let it out in introducing the new Transmode road-rail system.

"We're transportants," he said. As international operators they are also exponents, and importants, although I hope their charges do not make them extortants.

I remain an unrepentant newspaper reportant.