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Wrong Decision
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C 0 p.s.v. are in and C-licensed vehicles are out. That is the crux of this week's disclosure that the Minister of Labour, Mr. Ray Gunter, has decided to set up a single board for the road transport industry to include the road passenger. road haulage and motorvehicle repair industries.
This is wrong. In round figures there are 46,000 hauliers with 208,000 vehicles compared with 56,000 C-licensed operators of 217,000 vehicles exceeding three tons unladen. On this score alone—and not forgetting more than 1,000,000 C-licensed vehicles not exceeding that weight—ancillary operation is on a par with public haulage.
Both hauliers and ancillary users use similar vehicles, run on the same roads and compete in the same labour market for drivers and other staff. In much of their daily work Common standards already exist for both types of operators. And With the increasing toll of road accidents it is imperative that there should not be dual standards for driver training.
The Ministry may insist that joint committees or road transport and all other industrial training boards will take care of the training problem of the C-licensed operators. If so, experienced committee men may well doubt the wisdom of such an exercise in self-creating bureaucracy.
Trade and industry choose to carry goods in more than 1,000,000 of their own vehicles. They form a major section of the country's economic pipeline in their own right. The staff who operate and maintain those vehicles should be recognized as such by inclusion in the Industrial Training Board for Road Transport.