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'Fight pressure groups'
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GOVERNMENT and Parliament must keep their heads whatever the pressure from interested parties when they work out a transport policy — that was the message from RHA vice-chairman John Silbermann this week.
He said that Government must resist people, including those "with an insensate hate of goods vehicles — or road vehicles of any kind." Mr Silbermann was speaking at Monk Fryston, Doncaster, to North Yorkshire and East Midlands members of the Road Haulage Association.
"As expected, we have had an agonising chorus of dismay and protest from the many interests representing or championing the railways and from the even greater hotchpotch of organisations making up the anti-road lobby." But he paid some tribute to the thinking behind the Government Green Paper on transport: "Although there are plenty of things we don't like in the document at least it has been written by someone who knows his own mind."
"The Ministers concerned must have been well aware of the hornets' nest they were stirring up by their firm indication, not only that the road haulage industry is indispensable but that idle fancies about the transfer of traffic from the roads are merely ludicrous," he added.