"Fiddling" with Recorders is Detectable
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IN the report of the Febry case in The Commercial Motor dated February 19, it was stated that Mr. L. R. Beattie, senior traffic examiner, had said that vehicle recorders could be interfered with. This, apparently, was the reason why their use had not been recommended to the firm con cerned. .
We would like to make it quite clear that any article fitted to a vehicle can be interfered with by drivers, but interference with a Servis recorder is evident from the chart. Forty years of experience has proved that there is no method of "fiddling" Servis recorder charts which is not immediately evident,
Gloucester. W. GALLAGHER,
Sales Manager, Servis Recorders, Ltd.
No Expensive Toys for the Destructive
MR. GEORGE JEHAN'S suggestion (The Commercial Motor, February 26) that a new and possibly accident-prone driver should be allocated one of the best vehicles in a fleet leaves me dumbfounded. Mr. „khan,
an accident prevention officer, also states that "human relations in the transport industry have an important bearing on accident prevention."
It is these two points that I find unable to reconcile. If I know anything of human relationships in transport undertakings, there is little sympathy with the accidentprone and none at all if such a driver is handed a new and costly vehicle to break.
It may well be that all men are as grown-up children, and a child of determination will break anything, but I doubt whether any employer is going to risk psychological methods where normal caution reaps the greater benefit. And I think any professional driver would agree with me.
In road transport, there is no place for the. accidentprone. As I.see it, the mental attitude and the lack of skill that allow an accident -to develop out of the everyday hazards of driving on congested roads, are normally confined to the novice. The place of an accident-prone driver, whatever the psychological reasons for his condition, is in the stores, and "not behind the wheel of the pride of the fleet.
Harlow, Essex. WAYFARER.