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I Don't Wish To Know That
The RTITB's latest publication, "Managers in Road Transport," is a mine of useful information if you happen to be a transport training planner in the RTITB. For the rest of us......
Many Years Ago One Of Our People Asked An Irish
engineer in Dublin: "Why do you ' impose a tax on imported vehicles?" "To protect our own vehicle building industry," came the reply. "What industry?" "Well, to protect one if......
Know-ails
The ultimate in oneupmanship seems to be the Decimo Goldfinger and Goldfinger World Traveller "liquid crystal ultra-thin calculators in black real leather wallets." One costs......
Frank And The Beanstalk
Eyebrows tend to be raised when 26-year-old Frank Owens, who drives a DAF 15m artic for David McCulla and Sons, of Northern Ireland, descends from the cab. You see, he is only......
Temptation
Foyles in Charing Cross Road, London, is a shop that I try to avoid. Once inside I am immediately bemused by the rows and rows of enchanting books on every conceivable topic and......
Brian The Blaster Won't Bump No Mon
I have always been wary of staff suggestion boxes. Some of the ideas I have heard of would deprive the country of its managerial talent or the managers of some of their physical......