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Industry’s invisible wall

I’VE BEEN doing this for a bloody long time and still hearing the same frustrating talk about not enough drivers or operators participating or being involved. In the last edition of Owner//Driver, Ken Wilkie talked about the gap between decision makers and those who do the work of transport, the drivers.

There’s a theme in almost every edition, if not in all transport publications and industry conversations. It’s that gap between the people behind the wheel and all the others that write policy, enforce laws, run companies and those who influence and participate in the decision making.

Why? It’s the costs of being

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