RHA takes legal action in Potteries
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TEGAL action is being taken by the RHA J-1 West Midland area to recover subscriptions from hauliers in the Potteries who have failed to give proper motives for their resignation from the Association. RHA members had agreed to give one month's notice to resign.
Confirming this, area secretary J. T. W. Parnell stressed that such action was taken anywhere in the area; only the odd one or two cases were in the Potteries.
According to RHA figures, some 60 hauliers in the Potteries have resigned from the RHA following the closure of the subarea office at Burslem (COMMERCIAL MOTOR, February 11). The independent North Staffordshire Hauliers' Association, formed by hauliers in the Potteries, has already claimed 200 members.
RHA area chairman A. C. W. Neely told COMMERCIAL MOTOR this week that economies following the closure of offices at Wolverhampton, Birmingham and Burslem, and the centralization of services at Tipton, would not necessarily be apparent until the staff situation had been rationalized by natural retirements.
Since the centralization on Tipton he had invited complaints or suggestions from each RHA member in the Potteries sub-area; not one reply had been received. "We hear of this dissension in the Potteries", he added, "but when we ask for examples of dissatisfaction with the services provided by the new enlarged area office we are never able to get evidence.
"There are others far more remote from the office who are quite happy with the service", he said.
Some 20 per cent of the area's membership is based in the Potteries, which has the greatest concentration of hauliers in any part of the area.
Only 15 attended the RHA meeting held in Burslem on Wednesday of last week, called to report on national and area activities. The sub-area's a.g.m. is due on March 9; RHA officials hope the Potteries will end their "walk-out" and re-elect officials to represent the district
Mr. Parnell emphasized that the Potteries was still served by regular visits of the area office staff. "Clinics" are held at Tunstall Town Hall, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. every Wednesday and there is a meeting at Burslem Town Hall from 730 p.m. on the second Wednesday of each month. No other district in the area has such meetings.