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20th October 1978

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sabotage' split

POLICY row within the British Association of Owner Drivers threatened to split the organisation this week with the news that North Western Owner Drivers Ascoiation has left the national body and is to go it alone.

NWODA voted unanimously to leave the BAOD and is to "look for ways of helping owner drivers outside the national organisation".

In a scathing attack on BAOD, the North Western spokesman Bob Wilkins described the conduct of the one BAOD steering committee meeting he had attended as "utterly disgraceful".

He said that the association had "a generally lackadaisical approach".

Mr Wilkins, a Glossop insurance broker, said that the rift had come when negotiations over possible affiliation with the Road Haulage Association and the Transport and General Workers Union had been held In London.

The North Western Association sent two representatives: Trevor Winkless, a lecturer in transport studies, and former British Rail accountant Harry Conway.

Mr Wilkins added that the following day he was "blasted" because neither man was an owner-driver.

"In the end it came down to a growing dissatisfaction with the BAOD over its lack of progress. We read one thing about it and are told another," said Mr Wilkins.

This week BAOD secretary Mike Wells told CM: "They have caused trouble from the beginning, duplicating our efforts, sabotaging our negotiations and undermining our organisation."

He accused Mr Winkless and Mr Conway of attending meetings with the RHA and TGWU to destroy the BAOD talks.

They had then refused to attend a special steering committee meeting of BAOD called to discuss North Western Owner-Drivers Association and its behaviour.

"They tried to stage a coup and take over the steering committee," said Mr Wells. "but when that failed they got upset and now they've left." "Owner drivers are being used by outside influences in the North West—we don't know the whole story yet," said Mr Wells.