R.H.A. Debates Denationalization: Many More Hauliers Taken Over
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I T is understood that a small com mittee has been set up by the Road Haulage Association to consider steps that might in the future be taken to release road transport from nationalization. It is not allied to any political party.
Mr. Anthony Eden said last week that leaders of the road transport industry had been invited to offer criticisms and suggestions before a plan for the denationalization of road transport, which had already been drafted, was included in the statement of the Conservative Party's policy.
The Conservative transport committee proposes that goods and passenger road transport should be returned to private (or municipal) enterprise.
Meantime, the Road Transport Executive continues to take over road haulage undertakings at a high rate. 1 he following 33 businesses were acquired between June 1 and June 11
The Executive is now announcing week by week the names of undertakings acquired as there is necessarily some delay in publishing the lists in the Executive's monthly gazetteer.
Mr. K. Firth Butterfield, F.A.L.P.A., of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, informs "The Commercial Motor" that he conducted negotiations for the following 10 hauliers whose businesses have been taken over during the past five weeks:
The number of vehicles involved was about 200.