Here's to you, kid

摘要

Doom and gloom is remarkably easy to conjure up on a damp, grey day. A head gasket's gone on one new truck, another's causing traffic chaos with a steer axle puncture and the bank manager's concerned with how much the business is spending on diesel.What the workforce needs is the injection of some new blood. Then you meet Alex Knowles, a 23-year-old who's being groomed to take the reins of Knowles Transport, started by his grandfather Gerald in 1932. Sharp, highly educated and well-spoken, Knowles is confident, yet lacking in arrogance. You can almost tell he's the progeny of a hard-working haulier. He could easily pass (on the phone at least) for someone 10 years older. There's nothing even remotely immature about his demeanor: it's almost a shock when you consider just seven years earlier, he would still have been at school.