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On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Chris Davies wrote:
On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 08:41:55 +0100, David Hansen wrote: On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 23:12:36 +0100 someone who may be Chris Davies wrote this:- A lot of practises are institutionalised. To give an example, most couriers get paid by the number of drops they make. If any driver consistently took longer to make a journey than the rest of his colleagues, he would in all likelihood lose his job. Then they are taking part in a conspiracy with their employer to break the law. Let's take this up another level. What do you think would happen to the company that took longer and cost more for each drop? If it is a conspiracy, we are all part of it, not just individual companies. No. We're not given a choice - we have no way of knowing if a delivery company had law-abiding drivers or not, so we never have the chance to pay more for safety. What this is really about is that the costs of breaking the law aren't internalised; the drivers' illegal actions cost time, money and lives, but the costs are borne by other road users, the state, and cyclists and pedestrians. If the costs could be transferred to the delivery companies, then it would be in their economic interests to have good drivers. This is well nigh impossible to do perfectly, but covering the country in smart CCTV with automatic fines for any traffic offence would be a start. tom -- Crazy week so far, which at one point involved spewing down the inside of my jeans! -- D |
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