CONTINENTAL COMPETITION
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1 HAVE been encouraged by the many calls following my letter (CM February I) expressing the view that a great deal of unfair competition will have to be endured from Continental operators, unless there is greater harmonisation of an EEC transport policy.
Naturally, there are also those who disagree with me, and I respect their views. What did surprise me however, was the rather garbled reply (CM February 15) from Reg Dawson, ex-civil servant, with limited experience in the tough competitive world of the transport industry.
Had Mr Dawson read my letter correctly, he would not have accused me of being wrong and inconsistent, neither would he have ascribed me with views which I did not express. His failure to make any reference to the salient points in my letter leaves me in no doubt that he is unable to write anything on the subject worth reading.
If this is the best Mr Dawson can do, then we should consider ourselves lucky that he is no longer one of our representatives in Brussels, and pray that he never conies out of hibernation. D. F. Allen
Managing director Road Operators Associated Delivery Service Winchester I AM afraid Dave Allen (CM, March 1) misses the point of my letter published two weeks earlier.
of course, British hauliers sulk from legislative variations in other countries. Not all the examples he gave were accurate, but that does not alter the basic point. But if a French or German Dave Allen wrote on identical letter to a road transport publication in those countries about discrimination suffered in Britain he would attracrquite as many letters of support as the real Dave Allen says he has received.
My point was that these difficulties stem from a lack of the harmonisation, in legislation and its enforcement, decried in his original letter. He berated the "whizz; kids in Brussels" and issued quite unnecessary reveille calls to the Department of Tramporf to resist their efforts. Instead, he should urge both sets of bureaucrats to get on with the good work. I can see no other way of solving the problems and Dave Allen certainly does not suvest one. — Reg Dawson.