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Beware 'cohere Hurd warns hauliers

17th May 1986, Page 4
17th May 1986
Page 4
Page 4, 17th May 1986 — Beware 'cohere Hurd warns hauliers
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• The road haulage ii should beware of pofitich who call for "coherent" transport strategies, Hoi Secretary Douglas Hurd the Road Haulage Assoc. last week.

He was speaking at tt RHA's annual dinner in 1 and commented on the 1 of the "shadow of trade; power" by the present Government.

He went on to say of politicians offering a "coherent" transport pol "Those are the people v want to put road haulag( into the cage from whict liberated yourselves in t years after the War."

Hurd also told the RH "You represent a succes story. The distribution s is one of the most effick parts of the economy."

He also heard RHA chairman Bert Neely cal an indefinite freeze of vi excise duty rates. "By n increasing vehicle excise the Chancellor has at las. recognised that we are the entertainment busint but vital to the country' prosperity," said Neely.