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34 Wilma Ibtikea agaig
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rominent RHA members ave been highlighting the Aide replacement issue rid the need for better rates.
This is good advice, erhaps, but most members rill soon have pushed this nportant issue to the back f their minds, burying their eads in the sand and, as isual, sapping their energy, lutwitting one another, cared to stick their necks ut ratewise lest they have heir heads chopped off.
Hauliers are basically )nthusiastic loners, longing o be free of obligation to 'ellow members, masmodically consulting their association regarding lecessary rate increases, consulting nobody when about to cut one.
Today many are operating vehicles 20 per cent below recommended necessary earnings and yet moan regarding the cost of spare parts and new vehicles.
A new menace is the guy who has let his fleet run down, but continues to quote low rates and sub-contracts all and sundry, cheating on rates, operating on discounts, or both, while avoiding investment in new trucks, leaving the maintenance and all other operational problems to the hard-working operator.
I would advise all those who have the guts to purchase, operate and maintain vehicles to simply shun these people.
We don't object to any areas sub-contracting one another on a work-sharing basis. However, those who run their own business down, and then attempt to live on the fringe, will put many good operators in the poor house.
To think that many on both sides of the fence are in fact RHA members is, to say the least, disgusting.
We would ask you, RHA management, if you are to teach members anything, put loyalty to one another at the top of your list.
Mr Male and Mr Rodgers advise us to increase rates or go bankrupt. We attempted to increase our tonnage rates in this area, only to have our