Readers may be pleased/sad (delete as appropriate) to know that this week's issue marks Obiter's final contribution to its lawyers and their trucks theme. It all started off when road transport specialist Murray Oliver was rashly billed as the first solicitor holder of a class 1 heavy goods vehicle (HGV) licence and a public service vehicle (PSV) licence (see [2005] Gazette, 21 April, 4). This prompted a furious response from a number of lawyers who have held such licences for donkey's years. Some had even worked - and more importantly still, dressed - as coach drivers when not lawyering. News and pictures flooded in of shiny vehicles owned by lawyers such as a ten-ton AEC Matador 1944 vintage, a three-ton 1943 WC543 Dodge ambulance and a 65-ton Scammell Crusader. The latest pic (top) is of barrister Quintin Tudor-Evans' Kenworth (pictured left), a 6X4 US-made truck called 'Primrose', which he uses to pop down the pub apparently. We have also received several more entries in the battle of the licences. Somerset lawyer Gervase Channer, owner of the Scammell Crusader, wrote in to say he has held a steamroller licence for 29 years and a motorbike licence to add to his HGV and PSV licences. 'I used to have a Saturday job driving for Langdons, the refrigerated haulage people, whilst fighting to maintain some credibility as under-sheriff of Somerset and as a partner in Bevan Ashford,' he said, before adding: 'I do not wish to start a new round of challenges, but I did manage to keep the same wife throughout.' Another strong candidate was Captain Roger Laing (above), a Scottish lawyer who qualified also in England in 2002. Qualified to fly a Boeing 757, 767, and 747, he kindly sent us a photo of himself standing in front of a jumbo he flies world-wide. But the winner has to be solicitor Patrick Howell, at least in the number of licences he holds. 'I may not have the biggest truck,' he wrote, 'but besides having commercial pilot's licences for helicopters, gyroplanes, floatplanes, and fixed-wing aircraft, I have held a gliding licence, and instructor's ratings in parachuting and microlights, as well as being an ocean yachtmaster. And I have a hackney carriage licence (pays better than legal aid).'