| May 2001 | ||
 This is not the vehicle I was going to buy but Ford don't have any photos on their site. In fact I couldn't find any Transit minibuses on their Transit pages at all. Nice site, Ford. |
Picture the scene, a songwriter has to take his car down to the scrap yard because it's failed an M.O.T. and starts the search for a "new" set of wheels. Then the songwriter is offered a clean Transit mini-bus for a reasonable fee! What could be better. Take out a few seats, put in some home comforts and wallop, a mobile dressing room and home to drive to all those concerts and festivals. Marvellous! More than that; if you're concerned about driving after a gig you don't have to, it's comfortable enough to sleep in if necessary. The perfect answer. This is what happened this week. So, before I buy the Transit I ring up the Musician's Union to get a quote to insure the new vehicle. But they won't do it! Why not? This is what they said. "We can't offer you insurance on a Transit mini-bus because it's too great a risk." "Why?" I asked. "Because you're a musician." Musicians are a bad risk. Well, we all know that. That's been the stance of insurance companies for as long as I've been driving and I'd like to get hold of a few of the "musicians" who have made this the case (probably all those fifties jazzers). The premium is unbelievable and you know damn well that if anything happened they wouldn't give you zilch. But what I want to know is, why companies like the Norwich Union will, nevertheless, insure a musician at a premium rate but the Musician's Union won't?" More news to come on this one........... |
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