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• Following Our Pot Boiler The Other Week On Recruitment
problems, scores of concerned readers have been writing in saying "what's the matter? I'm available!" Has Commercial Motor gone bonkers, they ask, or were we writing about a......
• Red Faces All Round At A Recent Motor Trade
banquet in Scotland. The raffle — which raised .£3000 for the industry's excellent benevolent fund, BEN — came up for drawing. First out of the hat for the top prize came a......
• The Tacky Calendar Competition Continues To Draw In Your
entries. This week it's Pirelli's turn. Now Pirelli is the firm'which for years gave the world the motor trade calendar as we know it. This year, no doubt inspired by the Hawk's......
• A Lovelorn West German Haulier Hid His East German
lover under a load of rock salt during an ingenious escape to the West, the Hawk learns this week. The fraulein, a 41-year-old nurse, lay inside a steel pipe buried beneath the......
• After The Seemingly Endless Tide Of New Truck Launches
with all the attendant smoke bombs and trucks rising out of seas of dry ice, it was refreshing to attend the recent launch of Des new double-engined TurboTwin rally trucks. It......
• The Hawk Is Travel Weary This Week. Paris, Rome,
California, New York, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea . . . you name it I've been there. Did it all in an afternoon last week as a matter of fact. That's right, the Hawk visited......