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One of the "rules" of the Transport Managers' Club is that the after-dinner speaker sh not take road transport as his subject.
It was rigidly enforced by the founder Bill Irons and at the London Area Jack Scrivens always played it by the book, but he came perilously near the brink at the last meeting wi the speaker was P. J. Heaps of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service.
Naturally the discussion turned to redundancy and the cost of a hearing before the Industrial Tribunal. Members would soon learn that even if they won their case they were the only party called upon to pay anything.
Their shock is difficult to understand, since of their number, -Ralph Cropper, an operator, consultant and member of the tribunal, has been saying this in CM and elsewhere for two years or more.
Some left in the belief that it was better to take the aggravation than pay the piper. A TMC speaker later this year is Johnny Speight, author of Till Death Us Do Part. How appropriate