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Topics for hauliers: the future, training plans and containers
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DAPERS and discussions on the future of the road haulage industry will IL constitute the main proceedings at the business sessions of the annual conference of the Road Haulage Association at Bournemouth in October. Discussion will focus on the relationship of road haulage to trade and industry in general, development of the container and plans for education and training.
This is the programme:—
October 24: Official opening by Alderman F. A. W. Purdy, Mayor of Bournemouth.
Opening address by Mr. P. H. R. Turner, chairman.
The future of the industry in relation to trade and industry by Mr. Colin Jones, transport correspondent, Financial Times.
The implications of the "Container Revolution" by Sir Andrew Crichton, chairman, Overseas Containers Ltd.
RTITB viewpoint
Education and training by Mr. T. F. Tindall, director-general, Road Transport Industry Training Board, and Mr. G. F. A. Wilmot, assistant director, department of extra-mural studies, University of London.
October 25:—
Brains trust—chairman, Mr. P. H. R.
THE DEMAND IS THERE
A EUROPEAN rail service for containers will be introduced on September 5 between Antwerp and Rotterdam and Milan every Tuesday, via Cologne. The operating company TERRE, of Brussels, has been sounding out UK ferry-trailer operators for possible traffic. The British forwarding agents will work through LIFT at Stratford, London.
Turner, and members: Mr. T. D. Corpe, legal adviser, Western area, RHA; Mr. R. H. Farmer, chairman and managing director, Atlas Express Ltd., president, IoT, 1966-67; Mr. G. W. Quick-Smith, chief executive, THC; Mr. P. H. Shirley, vice-chairman, BR, Banquet and ball with principal speech by Mr. P. H. R. Turner.
SPOT-CHECK SAMPLE
AN MoT EXAMINER, Mr. J. Evans, is cooperating with the TRTA in a demonstration of h.g.v. inspection at Carlisle—on Monday. Wholesale fruit merchants W. B. Anderson and Sons Ltd., of Harraby, Carlisle, are supplying the vehicle.