I once looked into buying a small business that made and installed wind pumps (for pumping water). It came with a double cab Land Rover for taking a crew to site. It only needed one driver, and the other 3 could have been non drivers.RenewableCandy wrote:And most jobs seem to revolve around driving, or at least being able to. Having said that I once got offered a job whose advert said you needed a "Clean Driving Licence" (I haven't even got a dirty one!), apparently people are so used to putting this in job requirements they now do so without thinking. But (unless it's obvious, like repairing wind turbines on site) it's always worth asking.
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Doesn't that mean your employer needs some re-educating? Not necessarily something that will happen straight away, but your NEED for a car every 4 months can be got around.DominicJ wrote:Unless the driver was sick one day.
I need a car about every 4 month for work, but I couldnt do public transport when I do, I'm usualy going 200 miles, each way, in a day.
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It's actually New Labour's policy to increase car ownership in this country. Apparently it's a measure of prosperity. Hence the £4bn+ they happily spent on the pointless widening the M1.Ben wrote:What I find scary is that personal ownership of a car is gradually being "hardwired" into the system.
Still no where near as bad as the USA. I don't think it ever could be since we simply don't have the space to sprawl our communities out like they do. But agreed it's definitely getting worse.Ben wrote:It's becoming difficult to do without a car. Out of town shopping centres, death of the high street, deterioration in public transport (e.g. cancelled bus services), removal of train subsidies/record rises in train ticket prices.