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PLEASE FORGIVE SPELLING AS I AM NOT VERY WELL AT THE MOMENT

Hey Don, hope you are feeling better soon mate nothing to serious I hope?

All the best, Paul.

Don

This is by far the most important issue facing us all and the dramatic increases in attacks desperatly need a response.

A national campaign for protection be it through cctv's, driver shields, training and things like mandatory imprisonment need to be looked at.

I hope the GMB national meeting on the 12th will address the issue. You keep collecting the data, I'll see if there is someone who is good at artwork and we can see about getting some leaflets done and getting a campaign up and running

I GUARENTEE THAT DRIVERS SAFETY WILL BE AT THE FOREFRONT OF THE AGENDA.       

this subject is by far the most important issue on the table, so far the figures are ALARMING and show a dramatic increase in deaths and serious woundings. We need a national response to our situation as this job is now ranked as the third most dangerous in the world. I ask that all ,put aside personalities and concentrate on this issue,please ask all your friends/collegues to post details of attacks on this website,or the professional drivers site at .......gmbprofessionaldriversbranch.co.uk WE need to put foreward a dossier that will shock the authorities into urgent remedial action and perhaps loosen the nations purse strings by funding cctv and other protection. Perhaps a slogan such as" DYING FOR A JOB " or "DEAD END JOB"  would raise awareness.........what do you think ,suggestions please  

As for slogan's Don, how about  "On the front line "

That's the way it felt to me when I did nights!!!

BTW are you feeling better?

Many thanks, Tony & Pete. this link will make it far easier to report attacks. i hope that readers will use it in the manner for which it is intended.

I have enjoyed taking the proverbial on this site and getting some flak back and worried that some of you might really have been offended. But the time for messing around is over at the moment.

Going through the reports and pictures of ours getting beaten, humiliated and in the case of an increasing number killed has brought on a very serious mood.

I sincerely believe that the GMB Drivers branch has in front of it the most serious issue it has ever faced and must rise to the challenge.

A campaign of massive proportions should be launched involving the production of hundreds of thousands of leaflets highlighting what is going on, putting forward what needs to be done in terms of getting the equipment in the cars cctv's etc financed by the government through the licensing authorities. Marches, lobbies, petitions and motions to the Transport Minister Etc.

If the union can cut the mustard which I have every confidence it can, then after a campaign launch it's all shoulders to the wheel

I was going to say all hands to the pump but we don't want you Norfolk lads getting all exited.

AMAZING ISNT IT. either the fact that a record of attacks has been started, or alternatively the readers of forums are only interested in winding one another up over trivial matters has had a dramatic effect in stopping drivers being attacked. LETS CUT OUT THE CRAP!!! and concentrate on this the most serious of events. Perhaps you or one of your friends has suffered at the hands of muggers, thieves, or drunken thugs, if so post details on this website under the heading  GENERAL ISSUES  and on topic  marked  VIOLENCE AGAINST DRIVERS. we need as much ammunition as possible to put forward your concerns to the authorities please dont let this chance to end yobbish violence pass please put aside childish banter and unite under a common cause.

If I knew of any attacks recently Don I would have posted them! seems to be a bit quite at the moment don't  it?

Still, when the season of good will kicks off I am sure people will be able to give you plenty of incidences, yes folk???

Tony/Pete thanks for giving this subject a high priority,hopefully this will convince others .

To all of the following..  freddy / taxis /buly beef /streetcars /david g /milly.00 /nick / urban driver/ baron silas greenback /charlie boy/ and the silent majority out there!.  What are your thoughts on a campaign highlighting these murders and vicious assaults on drivers.......lets talk eh !!