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Would Mr D. Thomas please contact us and let us have the name and address of the customer who is paying some lucky person £900 per day for coach hire?
As CM has pointed out, Mr Thomas makes no mention of the stringent rules imposed on the coaching industry and the very stringent safety standards we have to meet to keep the Traffic Commissioners happy.
The majority of coach companies, small or large, give an excellent service under sometimes difficult circumstances.
I wonder if he would like to try and work on a management where the majority of coach work is carried out in three months at the high season, and then to try and eke out a living for the other nine months of the year.
This is what causes low wages. because everyone is trying to survive for the rest of the year_ Operators would like to be able to pay their drivers a good decent living wage for their excellent work.
As for the building of coaches by firms such as British Leyland. Ford and AEC. I suggest with his knowledge as a part-time driver, he looks into the statistics of damage caused in comparable accidents with our foreign competitors. He will be surprised.
One final question: what has Mr D. Page-Thomas got against the coaching industry? Did someone upset him in his parttime job? A last suggestion: before making out such a report, why does he not travel around the country and talk to coach operators?
P. G. SCOTT, Olsen Bros Ltd, Strood, Kent.