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io confidence' 1 lorry drivers
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X DRIVERS in the hire and reward have "destroyed the confidence of • try," a Sainsbury's director said last And he warned that UK manufac; would have to reconsider their Ion about the hire and reward tors they employ.
Payne, distribution director of J. bury and Freight Transport ;iation vice-chairman, made his ks at the FTA's Central Midlands on's AGM last week.
A's national chairman John Silberagreed with Mr Payne that the had been "devastating" but saw good in it because the general pubid been forcibly reminded that n is almost entirely a lorry-based my.
L speech to the RHA's mid-Cornwall rea last week, Mr Silbermann exxi a hope that "the message will at ave been understood that the road rand his driver do an important job well, without fuss and without seeking the limelight at normal times."
He reminded his audience that the Transport and General Workers Union, the biggest union in the world, had failed to call out more than one driver in four.
But positive thinking within the RHA was further tempered by the FTA view voiced by Mr Payne: "There is little point in using hire and reward operators to move goods from docks and sources of raw material supplies who in the event of any dispute would stop the flow of goods."
He advised the hire and reward sector of the road haulage industry to learn from the railway industry. He said that employees have now been joined by their employers who believe that any increase in cost could be passed on the customer. He felt that the true responsibility of those who supply services to industry is to suggest ways of offsetting the joint ravages of inflation and declining markets.