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HAULAGE INDUSTRY should le industrial lobby and should s, National Freight Consortiu week.
was giving an address to load Haulage Association rence at Marbella in Spain, ook "If I had my way" as his e.
;di of his aim was to show a high quality, rather than a :ost haulage industry could :ye, and he called for the :dry to improve its image by ding better working condifor drivers and to run from environmentally attractive ts.
; comments on environ.alists could be calculated to shivers down the spines of :reight Transport Associawhich has been long in the uard of industry's calls for ;sport controls to be I had my way we would worrying and embrace the sensible environmentalists. If the combined wisdom is that heavy goods vehicles must not make deliveries in one of our major cities, so be it.
"If this means that transshipment centres have to be operated, our industry will make a superb job of doing it. Of course it goes without saying that quality has to be paid for and on these terms we are all geared up to do whatever is necessary."
He added, giving high-level support to thoughts expressed privately by many in the haulage sector: "But let us not be the standard bearer all the time of the industrial lobby — if the nation wants a better environment, and we as vehicle owners are offending the majority, let us go along with this; it will also inevitably be good for our business."