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6th March 1959, Page 57
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Keywords : Truck Driver, Truck, Lorry

Double-think

By The Hawk

'HAT is the difference between banning something and prohibiting it? The Concise Oxford Dictionary" cannot inguish between the words, but according to the Transport General Workers' Union there is all the difference in the Id.

Ir. Arthur Townsend, the Union's national passenger ip secretary, is indignant about suggestions that there is love afoot to ban standing passengers on buses.

There has never been any question of a ban," he told me. e want the Minister of Transport to revoke the Order in lect of standing passengers."

, little confused, I asked exactly what the position of ding passengers would be.

They will he prohibited." said Mr. Townsend. Apparently pays your money..

znted

PEN1NG a communication addressed to him from the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, the editor startled by a bold headline, "Wanted by F.B.I." But it not he who was wanted. The F.B.I. are looking for a e-time lorry driver, Brendan Stephan Berry, Sen., who :cused of passing a dud cheque.

e is an engaging character who is covered with scars 27 tattoos of various diverting designs, has been convicted " assault to kill" and is reported to have carried an imatie pistol. switchblade knives and knuckle-dusters. He "indulges heavily in intoxicating beverages."

nyonc who may be employing him would be well advised nok the other way.

pica' and Tropical

[NTANNED after a holiday in Majorca, Mr. David iparshatt gave an authentic touch to an exhibition of ical trailers which he staged in Southampton last week. rshatts (Metal Bodies), Ltd.. have built bodies on nine ne trailer chassis for use by oil-drilling teams, and Mr. rshatt entertained his guests in a luxurious lounge bar :h formed part of an extensible trailer with a floor area 11 to that of a small bungalow.

fr. J.. C. Bolton, Hampshire county mechanical engineer, qf the visitors, lent another touch of realism. He was in • ge of transport in South American oilfields about 30 year; ago, when the staff lived in tents and there was no escape from heat, sand, spiders and all the other unpleasant things that go with perpetual sunshine. There were no mobile hotels in the oilfields in those days.

Looking Ahead

mR. BOLTON, incidentally, is one of those wise people who systematically cut out of The Commercial Motor all the articles that are likely to be of value for future reference and file them carefully. He pays particular attention to "Planning for Profit" and ''The Commercial Motor' Tables of Operating Costs," the figures in which he finds tally closely with his own.

He trained with the old Karrier company and has 'encyclopedic recollections of the early models.

Whatever Next ?

TT was unfortunate that Aid. Mrs. I. A. Legh, chairman of Weymouth Road Safety Committee, should have been sitting on the local bench when the magistrates were reported as saying that excessive caution could amount to driving without due care and attention. It would be a pity if any cautious driver in the Weymouth round of the Lorry Driver of the Year Competition on April 18 should be penalized for taking care.

Eight-mile Day

nRIVING eight miles a day seems to be an easy way of earning a living, although the man who does it will probably not thank me fordsaying so. He drives six miles to the ferry at Tilbury and another two miles at the Antwerp end of the journey. the rest of the time is spent on the ferry vessel keeping an eye on the temperature of a refrigerated trailer delivering sausages to British troops on the Continent.

Unexpected Honour

'THE honour of having sown the seeds of the Roads Campaign I. Council belongs, I hear, to Mr. R. A. Butler. His successor at the Treasury. Mr. Heathcote Amory, and Mr. Harold Watkinson, Minister of Transport, are reaping the harvest. It would be naughty to suggest that one of the products was a Preston by-pass made of pie-crust.


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