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Challenge to RHA members

17th November 1972
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

• It was up to members of the Road Haulage Association to give the man in the street a better image of road transport, said the Northern area chairman, Mr Stanley Young, on Saturday. He was speaking at the area's annual dinner and dance in Newcastle upon Tyne, and he reminded members that there were increasingly higher standards to be observed.

This was the 21st anniversary dinner of the Northern area, and Mr Young remarked that the area was one of the RHA's "big seven" with a substantial membership.

National secretary Mr Eric Russell (deputizing for Mr Jack Male, a vice-chairman, who is in hospital) denied a public impression that the RHA and th DoE were engaged in a running battle ove heavier lorries. The Association was mainl: concerned that its members should not bâ–  placed at a disadvantage to thei: Continental rivals.

Economic and efficient transport — which meant heavier road vehicles — was especially vital to areas like the Nord East, said Mr Russell, to prevent mon industry "gravitating to the centre". HI hoped our Brussels negotiators would no be unduly influenced by the "decibels' of those who seemed to think that an increase in lorry weights would damage th environment.