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LEADERS' VIEWS ON GOODS HAULAGE
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The present situation of the goods-transport industry is one that demands immediate action. Fortunately, this is being realized by many of the leading hauliers, with the result that an important measure of co-operation is beginning to take place, and, here, some of the most active men in the movement give their opinions as to the necessary steps to be taken to strengthen the position and to reduce the rampant evil of rate-cutting
'The next hoo years must constitute a most vital period."— J. S. Nichott, Commercial Manager, McNamara and Co. (1920, Ltd.
TO every haulier it must surely be obvious that the next two years must constitute a most vital period in the history of his industry.
It is perhaps unfortunate that so many issues should have been allowed to accumulate and finally have had to be dealt with all at the same time in the Traffic Act : it has meant that some, at any rate, of these issues have certainly not received the detailed attention and consideration which they warrant, but have been disposed of rather with an eye to completing the Act than to logical and technical grounds.
Further, it has meant that the haulier has had to concentrate more of his attention than should be diverted from his day-to-day business, upon the, not always easy, task of interpreting and correlating the thousand and one new regulations, and setting to work to reorganize in accordance with their requirements.
This would have been a matter serious enough in itself had the haulier been left in peace to tackle it, but he has not.
Because the revision of legislation affecting the roads has come about when trade has been passing through an exceptional depression, the haulier has not Only to cope with the multitudinous new regulations and the very active competition of his fellows, but has also to
face a carefully organized and far-reaching offensive on the part of the railways, in the form of outright competition backed up by the most painstaking endeavours to use every restriction which their ingenuity can discover against their road-carrying rivals, and finally by a Budget which increases by 50 per cent. his already heavy petrol tax.
Surely such a situation calls for a united front and combined action in dealing with common problems.
Road haulage rightly holds a position of high importance in the Nation's industries, and if that position is to be retained there must be a just realization of present dangers, and united action to meet them by all those concerned—not only the hauliers, but their workers and their customers.
It is the knowledge of this necessity which has been responsible for the formation of the Long Distance Road Haulage Association, an association formed to enable this particular and important section of the industry to consider and deal with its own problems as well as those common to all commercial road users.
The association needs and deserves the active personal support and assistance of every long-diEtance road haulier, and surely the position calls for us to give both without stint for our own ultimate good.