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— is back next week. He takes issue ith Reg Dawson's views expressed in M. There are many who disagree with the )ullient Ralph. See what you think of his test attack on the 1982 Transport Act in »a week's issue.
Leyland's Roadtrain has been over our st route twice, and a bit more. Bryan trvis took it out at 32 tonnes — he reports 3xt week: "performance good; pulls ell; a good rig." Read the rest next week ld then compare it with the same vehicle our 38-tonne report on August 26.
Should recovery operators be licensed? le Association of Vehicle Recovery perators thinks so, some non-Avro embers think so, but the Department of ansport has rejected the idea. We have oked at the pros and cons and we think 1. Our plan is published next Friday. What ) you think?
Licensing would mean more law for covery men and there is plenty already. 'e look at existing law which applies to covery with histories and court decisions ..xt week. • Almost as complex as the law, is the type and amount of equipment available to recovery operators. This is an area where the cliché, horses for courses, applies. Bill Brock looks at some of the equipment available in a pictorial feature next week.
• Do "cowboys" still ride the "Motorway range"? Are recovery jobs as difficult as we are led to believe? Are there too many or too few recovery men around? These are the questions Mike Rutherford set out to answer when he donned his overalls and joined a recovery man on the edge of the M2 which carries Dover-bound freight and holiday traffic.
• What causes a windscreen to shatter? Air waves; road metal; birds, even horses and deer; these have all been blamed. It matters little what the cause since the screen explodes and shatters on the road; then the important concern is how to replace it. This is the matter to which David Wilcox turns next week.
• Also next week, Simon Greenly chats to Continental Freight Drivers Club members and others, and Preceptor is back with his simplified Vehicle Technology series.