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If John Silbermann succeeds in streamlining the Road Haulage Association area organisation, he will deserve to have his name In lights on the Herbert H. Crow memorial roll of chairmen in the head office conference room. He has until next May to crown a dynamic term of office with this achievement.
It has always seemed to me to be extraordinary for Yorkshire to be split into three areas based on Leeds, Sheffield and Hull, each with its own democratic tradition and precious little else. Sheffield and Hull offices certainly have only skeleton permanent staffs and if an area secretary is ill for more than a day or two, the chairman may pave to take over to prevent total ollapse of the service.
This cannot be in the intersts of members, yet the amalamation of the three areas has the past been rejected uneuivocally. The area offices ernain as tombstones to the lbcal organisations that merged in the RHA in 1 945 — organisations that are dead but won't I e down.
Area boundaries are capricious, too. The R HA Southern area continues to correspond largely to a traffic area that was abolished by the MiniSter of Transport only a few years after it was created. As a result, members in Oxford and North Buckinghamshire are adMinistered from distant Winchester by an indefatigable secretary who is in all senses perpetually at full stretch. It is curious, tbo, that half Wales should be included in the North Western area.
Anyone who is so fossilised in tradition that he regards such anomalies as sacred qualifies for the title, Plastermind 1 979,