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Quoting rules seems to be a defence that the 'unreasonably officious use
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I READ WITH interest your news story regarding the driver who was stopped by VOSA on the A55 in north Wales ('VOSA officers stop HGV driver from returning to services', CM 22 January).
How is it that when the authorities take unreasonable action, they revert to type and quote regulations as if that in some way exonerates them from any personal or social responsibility towards another human being?
It appears over the top to issue a PG9 prohibition for one indicator defect, and was the driver's boss aware he was stuck in a lay-by for 43 hours? While this hapless driver was possibly reduced to talking to himself for 43 hours, while he waited in the lay-by the rest of the bunch involved in this incident were probably languishing happily in the comfort of their homes and probably not thinking about this driver.
I hope the remaining reasonable-thinking people that are left in this country of ours are as appalled as I am over this dreadful treatment of a fellow countryman.
David Beaumont Operations manager
Myers Group