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• As expected, Flowers Transport chairman Glyn Samuel has been elected national chairman of the Road Haulage Association in succession to Bert Neely who has served for two years.
Samuel, who has served as a vice-chairman for the past two years, is a Welshman who has been in road haulage for :12 years, having started in Swansea.
He worked with British Road Services from its formation in 1947 until 1962, when he joined the Scottish-based Tayforth Group. He moved to the Transport Development Group in 1967, serving as chief executive of companies in Derby and Leicester and in 1975 moved within the group to become managing director of Flowers in York. He has held his present role with the company since 1985.
In the past, Samuel has chaired the RHA's Leeds area, the association's national industrial relations committee and the York and district haulage negotiating committee.
His fellow vice-chairman for the past two years, air freight haulier Roy Bowles, becomes senior vice-chairman and in the normal course of events will succeed Samuel in 1988.
The new vice-chairman is Bob Heaton, chairman of St Helens-based Heatons Transport and a former NorthWestern district chairman of the RHA.
When he left school aged 16 in 1949, Heaton's father's haulage business had been nationalised, so he embarked on a career in farming, working a farm near Preston until 1960, when he rejoined the denationalised family business.
Other members of the RHA executive hoard are Len Bassett, Barry Hempsall, Tom Llewellyn, Peter May, Geoff Pygall and Bert Neely.