More Members, More Cash, Reports Road Haulage Association
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AN increase in membership of 211, bringing the total at the end of 1960 to 16,870, is announced in the Annual Report of the Road Haulage Association for 1960-61. The general fund at the end of the year showed a healthy balance of £186,590.
During the year, the licensing committee considered various aspects of licensing legislation and submitted to the Minister of Transport a number of recommendations. These included: greater efforts to be made by Licensing Authorities to enforce the conditions for operations under C hiring margin and contract A licences, and to reduce the large number of unlicensed operations on road works; Licence holders should be able to use their staff as drivers for the vehicles of other licence holders under reciprocal arrangements for shunt services; Employers should not be prosecuted in cases where they have taken every step to prevent falsification of drivers' records and could not have known of such falsification; "Repeal F-licences" The section of the Act which enables C-licensed farmers to carry for hire or reward should be repealed in view of the frequency with which this privilege is being abused: • Holders of F licences should be required to have C licences, because the F-licence privilege is being abused; The right of appeal should be provided against enforcement of that section of the Act which empowers a Licensing Authority to remove from a licence a vehicle that has ceased to be used under the licence for any reason other than a fluctuation of business.
The problems of bans on loading and unloading were considered by the Traffic Committee which is endeavouring to B6 establish a pattern for reasonable proposals on such bans.
A measure of success is reported by the Bulk Liquids Group in their pilot scheme to counter drivers' falsification of records.
The Clearing House Group gave attention to the dangers of passing work to inadequately licensed customers and urged members to help to eliminate the spate of piracy," by giving more attention to checking licences.
R.H.A. Executive
A T their first meeting last week, the newly appointed national council of the Road Haulage Association elected the following members to the executive and finance committees:—
EXECUTIVE: J. B. Mitchell (national chairman). H. Bell, A. R. Butt, D. 0. Good and J. T. Turner (vice-chairmen), R. N. Ingram (immediate past national chairman), N. T. O'Reilly (Northern). W. Bridge (Yorkshire —Leeds), G. Reader (Yorkshire—Hull), T. Smith (Yorkshire—Sheffield), R. S. Heaton (North Western—West), L. Dugdale (North Western—East), T. Dabbs (East Midland), G. W. Mousley (West Midland), J. H. G. Penfold and P. H. R. Turner (Metropolitan and South Eastern), A. Williams (South Wales). A. H. Gore (Western), J. Rawlings (Southern), C. Robinson (Eastern). L. C. Matthews (Devon and Cornwall), A. Scott (Scottish), R. G. Crowther, R. H. Farmer, A. T. Robson, R. B. Brittain, J. Murly. R. Clifford, C. Collins, F. Rudman, J. Allsop, R. Atkins, H. Hunter. A. Ramage. F. Harfoot and G. A. P. Upston.
FINANCE: J. B. Mitchell (national chairman). H. Bell. A. R. Butt, D. 0. Good and J. T. Turner (vice-chairmen). N. T. O'Reilly, R. N. Ingram. R. G. Crowther. W. Bridge. and R. Clifford.