R.H.A. Council Approves Rail Co-operation Inquiry
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SUGGESTIONS that there should be detailed exploration of the areas of potentially fruitful co-operation between British Road Services, British Railways and the Road Haulage Association received a wide measure of support at a meeting of the R.H.A.'s national council in London last week.
At the same meeting tributes were paid to the work done by Mr. Frank F. Fowler in his capacity as chairman of the Employers' panel of the Road Haulage Wages Council; he has held this position since 1948 but is not letting his name go forward for nomination as a member of the new wages council. The Minister of Labour, Mr. John Hare, has sent a letter of good wishes to Mr. Fowler, expressing admiration for his work on the council as leader of the employers.
The meeting was told that, at the request of the Ministry of Transport, Licensing Authorities are considering a suggestion from the R.H.A. that there should be a uniform practice for displaying the appropriate conditions on a vehicle operated under a B licence.
It was also revealed that the .R.H.A. is urging building and civil engineering contractors to provide facilities at sites for cleaning the wheels of vehicles before they leave. The move is prompted partly by a proposed new by-law in the Borough of Harrow under which a person in charge of a vehicle is required to remove mud deposited on the highway by a vehicle.
At the end of the meeting, unanimous appreciation was expressed of the way in which haulage drivers had kept goods traffic going, and in some cases had come to the aid of the railways, in spite of the difficulties caused by the prolonged cold weather.