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    The need for flexibility

    Jan 13, 2021 4 minutes
    Ken Wilkie

    ANOTHER YEAR. I had been invited to join an online video link with the “not” National Heavy Vehicle Regulator on December 3. I declined the offer – and not because it was our 49th wedding anniversary.

    For decades I have tried to have some influence on policies that govern the working lives of truckies. Those efforts have cost me thousands and thousands of dollars – both in actual dollar terms and wasted time. And it has just been wasted time.

    I don’t consider a personal invitation any recompense for past endeavours. A more cynical attitude is “give that sucker an invite – he

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