A chance to vote Every Road Haulage Association member has
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this mont been given the opportunity to exert a direct influence c the industry's future standards. Their response to ti questionnaire will almost certainly be crucial to the decisic which the national council has to take, probably at i• meeting on September 24.
The key question which members have to answer : whether they would apply for registration as "approved undertakings, since this issue is at the heart of all the Wel proposals. Those who reply " yes " will be voting for ti, establishment of a registration list of hauliers who can pr( vide documentary proof that they are properly licensed, LIE appropriate conditions of carriage, have effective insuranc cover, are financially viable, subscribe to a no-poachin agreement and are prepared to be investigated by th approving authority.
Those—and there may be many—who cannot stomach sue rules should carefully weigh the advantages — an the alternatives. The EEC's regulation of entry to the pa fession, just around the corner, will be much more palatabl to an industry already committed to its own highe standards; a freight customers' spokesman has explaine( in CM, how users would favour registered hauliers; and i the developing European freight market, affecting Britai no less than the Continent, UK hauliers are going to nee all the influence and backing they can muster.