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11th September 1970, Page 96
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

I was very much in sympathy with the letter from "Leonard Leyland" in your August 28 issue, on the problems of the older driver. Is the haulage industry even now doing anything to make provision for its older, long' service employees? Are they always to look forward to nothing better than gradually slipping down the ladder, once past about 55. to be given a relatively poorly paid yard or office job, or be laid off?

The Lorry Driver by Peter Hollowell, published about a year ago, tackled this problem and might have been expected to nudge the industry into doing something, but perhaps his sociologist's language blurred the message. The unions, too, are very dilatory in th matter.

A. J. WHITE, Mundesle