No Kite Flying

Nobody can accuse British Road Services of kite-flying with their new trailer rental service. Their hot-air balloon, which was to have hovered above a 40ft trailer at the......

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rate bate A customer who attended the trailer launching ceremony complained that three months after the truck rental service was introduced the rates were increased, which made......

Self

immolation I notice that The Daily Telegraph now has an "economies" correspondent. His first task is to write himself out of a job.......

Misleyd

Beauty Queen Debbie Askew has been dubbed "Miss Leyparts." A Leyland photograph shows to advantage the parts she mislays.......

Bargain For Hauliers

Hauliers may be able to recoup from manufacturers some of the money that they lost in the strike and are still losing in an inflationary wage settlement. Truckman, published by......

Straight From The Shoulder

There is nothing like a punchy title to grip the imagination and to titillate the senses. Take, for example, The Distribution Business is a 24hour-day Business. That's on Top of......

Leap In The Dark

My eye was drawn to a headline, "D-day on RHA works gradings," in Public Service, the Nalgo newspaper. It was not, I soon discovered, a reference to the organisation much loved......

Not Guilty

The criticism by the Prince of Wales of poor communications in industry hardly applies to the National Freight Corporation. Supplementing its normal open channels of......