R.H.A, AGREES TO ABSORB MEAT TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION
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THE executive committee of the Road Haulage Association has, under powers delegated by the national council, agreed to the Wholesale Meat and Provisions Transport Association being incorporated into the R.H.A. The terms of this incorporation had earlier been agreed by the national committee of the R.H.A.'s meat transport functional group.
The terms agreed by the meat group include a recommendation that W.M.P.T.A. members' special interests should be the responsibility of a five-man committee which would represent both the heavy and light sides of the industry; this committee would nominate three members to sit on the functional group committee and would appoint two deputies.
It was also agreed that Smithfield carriers, as part of the functional group, would operate independently of any other meat carriers' group which might be established in the Metropolitan and SE. area, and that a Smithfield carriers' negotiating committee should be set up. This would concern itself with operational matters relevant to Smithfield hauliers; the Smithfield carriers' group, who would all have to be R.H.A. members, would be given powers to try and produce an enforceable rates schedule.
The W.M.P.T.A., originally a wartime organization, was revived in 1954 and its approach to meat hauliers throughout the country at that time to join it as a national meat transport organization caused considerable controversy, especially within the R.H.A.