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Dangers of new operators
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I would like to congratulate you on your realistic and forthright editorial (CM. April 16), and to express the hope that your timely warning be heeded, quickly and effectively, though I must confess that I fear the hope is a forlorn one. I would couple your comments with 'those made by the FTA, referred to on page 15 in the same issue, particularly in regard to road safety which is my primary interest, and I suggest to the Association that for them to believe that this issue is likely to be overshadowed is to ignore the lessons of the past.
Of the 500 new operators a month entering transport it is safe to assume that the vast majority are operators of from one to 10, probably one to five, vehicles.
The past has shown that these people frequently buy a used vehicle, or vehicles, flog them to death round the clock, with little maintenance and a poor type of driver and then repeat the process, because, only by so doing can they cut rates sufficiently to get any business at all.
The fact that many go to the wall in pretty short order does not materially alter the effects, all harmful to the industry as a whole, and, in the meantime they invariably create a safety hazard for all who have to share the roads with them. When this happened after the First Wor War the effect was not so serious as the roa were not crowded, but if the situation then being repeated now the risk to life and proper will be very much greater.
In the case of vehicle condition it mu surely be obvious that if an annual test f passenger cars is considered necessary, it farcical, to say the least, for light commerc vehicles with an annual mileage of anythii up to 10 times that of private cars, under i more adverse load conditions into tl bargain, not to have annual tests also.
R. B. DANIELL, AIR' Chalfont St, Peter, Such+