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    Health of the industry

    Nov 10, 2019 5 minutes
    Ken Wilkie

    OING BACK A FEW ISSUES, John G Beer was calling for bureaucrats to experience life on the road (Owner//

    Driver August 2019, page 33). That was the aim of Rod Hannifey in setting up his TruckRight Industry

    Vehicle. I should know as I made it possible for him to kick it off – a dumb owner-driver had stepped up.

    Obviously I share the ambition to which John Beer refers. No one in the corporate world had the desire to go out on a limb to support Rod. When it is all said and done, it is members of the corporate world in and out of road transport who have engineered the decline of conditions of employment in road transport.

    Too few are prepared to take a stand against immorality. Too few

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