Common ground?
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'The Sound Off feature from 1 Stephen Joseph, director of Transport 2000, (CM11-17 Feb) ends by suggesting that transport operators and his organisation need to stop stereotyping each other and start communicating.
This might be seen by some as an olive branch from the environmentalists, with which to beat the transport industry over the head, but there certainly seems to be some common ground. There has been a them and us attitude for too long.
The road transport industry is under constant public scrutiny and as such is easy prey for any anti-brigades looking for a cause.
It does itself no favours by "putting up the barricades" as Stephen Joseph puts it, but would do far better to take a more positive attitude, helping to change and improve systems so that governments and other bodies have no choice but to listen to reasoned and knowledgable council. Rex Walden, Freightconnection 93, Lichfield, Staffs