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Wider horizons for RHA
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TN the two decades during which the Road Haulage Association has been in existence, nothing can have been more fundamental to it than the proposals now being sent out to members by the national council (see next page). Equally, nothing can be more welcome because they mark a maturity of thought and decisiveness of action which have not always seemed to be present to the degree they should have been in all the activities of the Association.
The proposals arise from a resolution, discussion on which dominated the 1963 conference of the RHA. Possibly the most far-reaching of the proposals is that to appoint a paid chairman "of eminence in public life". It is a considerable about-face for the association which, over the years, has always resisted this suggestion. Yet the reasons today are as valid as those which existed when the suggestion was first made. The tempo of public life today is such that it cannot be dealt with either on a committee basis or in the often-unfair light of television and newspaper publicity. There is no doubt that a permanent, respected, chairman of the quality proposed would do more for the road haulage industry than any other single person or activity could. Individual hauliers will perhaps be more interested in the changes proposed in RHA constitution to enable it to offer to its members those services which hauliers in other countries take for granted from their associations. There is, indeed, no reason at all why the RHA should not ultimately be able to show a trading profit from these activities, if they are undertaken commercially; this profit could be used to build up funds and reserves and therefore indirectly benefit members by keeping down subscription levels.
Whichever way one examines these proposals, the conclusion is the same; that the members of the national council have been honest, far-seeing and courageous. There are occasions when change can be achieved by minor modifications or slight changes of direction. There are also rare occasions when real change can only come about through basic upheaval of an established procedure and its replacement with a more suitable one. This latter is the decision which the RHA has now taken.
COMMERCIAL MOTOR unreservedly commends these proposals to hauliers; if they are not put into effect operators will virtually have cut their own throats.