Govt mus encourage industry
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THE GOVERNMENT tni take positive steps to int duce or amend legislation aid and encourage industry become more producti' Nowhere was this more ti than in the transport inclus which had been hemmed in over-intervention.
So said Len Payne, vi, chairman of the Frei& Transport Association and rector of distribution, Sainsbury Ltd, when addr sing the Annual Gene Meeting of the East Scotia Division of FTA in Edinbur on March 10.
Certainly industry had study its own methods a question service requil ments.
It had to investigate m technologies to see wheth they would help to conta costs; but the Government self could help by making S1.1 that maximum efficiency w obtained from existing: sources and technology.
In the field of road trar port, the government haid thin its power the ability increase the carrying capaci of existing vehicles by amen ing maximum weight lev( and could increase speed mits on derestricted dual C E riageway roads, cuttii journey times on many vii routes. Both of these mov would save time and mom and increase productivi with little or no extra inve: ment required.
In addition it was clear th lorries did pay more than thE costs in taxation. Here aga there was a case for the G vernment to apply resttali by not increasing taxation.
The road transport industi had been one of the mo; heavily legislated sectors fro both the UK Government ar the EEC. The time had con to see how the industry cou be stimulated by the introdu. tion of more liberal and pra, tical changes which could, I made without cost or harm t the environment or safety. ,