Freedom hauliers
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THE road haulage industry is t backbone of free enterprise this country, director general the Institute of Directors Wall Goldsmith has told the Ro Haulage Association.
"As a consequence it is a gui antee of freedom itself and the right of people to move th. goods freely and without h drance across the country."
Mr Goldsmith told those tending the RHA's annual dinr that they had a right to be or mistic about the prospects 1 future profitability and econon recovery.
He criticised the civil servar current industrial action a spoke at times disparagin, about union activity through( industry.
Mr Goldsmith also referred the difficulties faced by the p sent Government: "The r danger facing Mrs Thatcher n is that all the sacrifices which private sector has borne to bri the money supply under soi kind of control will be thro away in an extravaganza of cc tal spending."
Mr Goldsmith also said ti the road haulage industry "weathering the recession" a that currently, the effects of recession are "restraining trac union militancy."