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NATIONALISE YOU LATER...?
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THE Government is urging hauliers to keep going by whatever means possible so that they can take over the haulage business when things get better, said Road Haulage Association chairman Mr Jack Male on Saturday.
Mr Male was addressing a meeting of the RHA long-distance hauliers group in Wolverhampton. He told members that it was a case of "heads we win, tails you lose" with the. policy of nationalisation.
"I can hardly think of a greater discincentive for an industry wishing to plan and invest for the future than the almost casual reference to nationalisation in the Government's Green Paper," said Mr Male.
The document admitted, he said, that it would not be appropriate to nationalise haulage in the present climate. He commented: "Such a policy is entirely deplorable and disreputable. The Government has only got away with it so far because all the politicians care about is the decline of the railways."