November/December Issue 59 - Flipbook - Page 10
NEWS
A JOB WELL DONE
zone present, and have also
agreed with Bath and part of
Somerset that recovery vehicles
will also be welcome in these
zones. This is an underrated
achievement, because there is
a real possibly that low emission
zones could become starved of
breakdown cover, with long ETAs
as work providers search for a
operator prepared to assist.
Fred Henderson,
Fred Henderson Ltd
I could not let the moment pass
without congratulating Graham
Steedman and the AVRO team
who have succeeded in getting a
concession for recovery vehicles
to enter the areas of Birmingham
where there is an low emission
I am impressed the way they have
gone about these negotiations.
There seems to have been little
fanfare and no smoke and mirrors,
no pictures of people in suits
shaking hands. I guess it must
have taken a bit of negotiating,
especially since these emission
zones tend to have a lot of emotion
attached to them. That’s because
people are anxious to look for
clean air and the resulting better
health.
I hope in years to come it doesn’t
become unstuck because of a
dirty old breakdown truck being
caught in a cloud of black smoke
while inside a clean air zone or worse still to be seen by a
do-gooder observing a lesserthroated warbler developing a dry
cough as a result of inhaling poor
emissions – even if later the bird is
found dead of old age!
These things can turn into a
bit of a problem so let’s hope it
never comes to that. It’s worth
remembering that everybody has
a big responsibility not to let AVRO
down.
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