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I was much comforted by G.
Campion's letter (CA November 3) on how everythir seems to militate against a -little man". I own a 196 D760 which cost me £1250 buy and put on the road I 1977,
In 1979 a similar Ford, ju chassis and cab, will set rr back £8500 without even beir on the road. Obviously replacement would have to second hand, but still one ca allow three times my origini cost. As for the subject c tachographs — what value is a 11-year-old Ford without on and is it worth the cost to have vehicle running on borrow& time fitted with one?
I manage on a £10 budge per year for logbooks — whv should I go to the expense o £250-£300 initially to achivr the same end?
About 90 percent of m) work is within South Devon. If go south-east, south or south. west I end up in the English Channel. And I seem to remember from my school days that no place in the UK was more than 75 miles as the crow flies from the sea, so as we are apparently an island let us keep to insular views and practices.
A final point. It appears ludicrous that one can legally drive a goods vehicle of 1940 vintage which may not require trafficators, has only the one wiper on the screen (and then only if the driver's window doesn't open) and has inefficient, but just legal, brakes and lights like candles. Yet so far as I can understand, in order to -conform" it will need a tachograph.
I'm not a sheep and I'm fed up with conforming to rulings that are so out of line with our day to day existence and fasteroding independence. RICHARD HOLLADAY, Owner-operator, Kenton, Devon