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Ike: R.H.A. Can Do No More
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disappointing to find so excellent a journal as The -11nercial Motor reacting as it did in a leading article "Answers Needed" last week to the Ministry of port announcement on diesel smoke. it is all very well nifest concern about this problem by posing a series stions which, however relevant and responsible they appear, nevertheless seem to me to imply that rs do not regard the emission of diesel smoke very sly or with any sense of urgency.
ink the kindest thing that can be said about the article it reflects the same sense of helplessness that hauliers 3out this problem and about their attempts to solve is sense of helplessness arises from the fact that this ation has sponsored the formation of maintenance ry committees, has urged the British Standards tion to prescribe more satisfactory standards both iel and for diesel engines, and has continuously isized the need for its members to pay attention to nntenance of vehicles.
Road Haulage Association cannot do more either Len the work of the B.S.I. in this field or to represent oil companies the dissatisfaction it feels.
Ids vehicles emit smoke through a variety of causes ing the construction of engines, the quality of fuel, nical failures, the practices of drivers and unsatisy maintenance. What more can the Road Haulage ation do or do more quickly than have these causes gated or the techniques of maintenance emphasised?
don, W.C.I. G. K. NEWMAN, Secretary-General, Road Haulage Association.