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Bring back proof of need, urges Geo Newman
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• Completion of the first 1000 miles of motorway provided the bone-structure of our modern highway system, but most of it followed the north-south pattern. So said Mr Eldon Griffiths, Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the DoE, when he addressed an Eastern area RHA one-day conference at Ipswich on Wednesday. "But", Mr Griffiths added, "today the needs are changing. We must fill in the east-west cross-pieces linking the industrial regions to the East Coast ports."
"The success of the enlarged EEC will depend in no small measure upon the road goods transport industry." This was how Mr George Newman, the RHA's directorgeneral, summed-up his paper on "Access to the transport market".
He went on to say that the industry would be wise "to support measures which honestly appear to the more thoughtful elements in its leadership to be conducive to the development of high professional standards, adequate but not excessive capacity, fair but not suicidal competition, maximum safety and technical standards, a balanced relationship with the environment, good industrial relations and charges which not only cover costs and a fair return on capital but provide reasonable renumeration for all those who, through the industry, provide a service which is vital to the life and well-being of the community."
Mr Newman said that changes — as yet difficult to forecast in detail — would have to be made in the British haulage industry as integration with the EEC developed. Common transport poticy had not progressed very far and in the next few years "we may be able profoundly to influence its direction and pace of development", he said. Mr Newman hoped that the British would be able to demonstrate their notable flexibility during this period.
Among the points he made were these: the proposed bracket tariff system would be particularly important and the RHA would have to give it some serious thought; proposals for limitations on the driving day were being strenuously resisted; and as far as quantity licensing is concerned EEC operators will be probably satisfied with the proposals while their British counterparts will be fighting against them. The British operators would require a more liberal system but would probably agave with foreign hauliers on three main principles: admission to industry subject to quality and competence criteria; control of quantity by proof of need; and separation of ownaccount from professional haulage.