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• End Of An Era
National Freight Corporation deputy chairman G. W. Quick Smith reached the end of his official term of office on Tuesday of this week. He tells me he's off on a very restful......
• Message From Moscow?
John Stevenson, URTU central and southern organizer, appears to be making something of a reputation as a controversialist. In the April issue of the union journal Wheels he used......
• A Grand Lot
A glowing reference to his drivers as "a grand lot" by a leading haulier is a welcome tribute at any time, and doubly welcome in these days of recurrent labour troubles. The......
• Not Enough Ballast
Tom Thkkell, secretary of SABHAATA, tells me he turned down the lead in the fain of similar title (this column, May 28) because the rate offered was uneconomic, so this was......
• Hoffa There
Ever since US Teamsters Union president James Hoffa went to gaol four years ago on a 13-year sentence for pension fraud and jury "fixing", the truck driver members have (like......
• Osculation Point
Trust the Americans to think of kiss 'n' ride. Apparently it differs from park 'n' ride in that the wife takes the car home after dropping hubby at the rapid-transit station. If......