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Driver legislation's effect on distribution by A. J. West Stemming directly from the changes to be discussed in the first session, Mr West's paper will identify and quantify some of the ways in which he foresees that freight distribution will be affected by the new EEC regulations. The eight-hour driving day, 48-hour driving week and 280 daily mileage limit are of immediate concern to distribution executives, while tachographs are an entirely new factor for many operators.
Alan West is stock control and planning manager, RHM Foods Ltd, engaged in all aspects of distribution planning, including work study. He was previously with Unilever, where he worked at a variety of SPD depots before joining the head office distribution staff. Harold Berry is executive director, United Transport Overseas Ltd, and is a director of 15 principal companies in the United group which owns over 15,000 vehicles in the UK and overseas Mr Berry has been with UTO since 1953, holding executive posts in Africa, Australia, Britain and on the Continent; he set up and ran the group's Australian freight operations for Wile years. Now his transport management responsibilities lie in the UK and Europe, Australia and Canada— where one of his directorships is in the 1800-vehicle Canadian Motorways company. He is a fellow of the chartered institutes of secretaries and transport and a qualified accountant. Jim Mortimer is chairman of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service. He is also chairman of the EDC for the engineering construction industry, was formerly a member of the Prices and Incomes Board; and the London Transport Board member responsible for industrial relations. He started his career as a ship fitter apprentice, went to Ruskin College, Oxford and the London School of Economics on TUC scholarships and after working in the economic department of the TUC became a national official of the draughtsmen's union (now AUEW-TASS).