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Double for the driver?
25th October 1974, Page 79
25th October 1974
Page 79
Page 79, 25th October 1974
— Double for the driver?
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Without wishing to dampen enthusiasm for the double-bottom road train, I wonder how much study has been given to driver attitudes in compiling the recent reports?
I recall that Bill Moore, the veteran US champion driver who was in the UK recently, was not at all keen on the long double-bottoms and indicated that the triple-bottoms were regarded with some alarm — not because they are difficult to drive or unstable but because the rear end of such a long train is so far back from the driver that he cannot feel full responsibility for what is happening back there.
Also, the US drivers get paid extra for the longer trains; has this been taken fully. into account in costing them for the UK?
B. M. WHITE, Bexley, Kent.