OPERATORS MUST SPEAK UP'
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HE SCOTTISH area Road Haulage Association conference at Peebles last week was ld that if the image of the RHA was not what they thought it should be then the .medy lay in the members' hands.
CM's editor, addressing the conference ) the RHA and the Press, said that the HA's reluctance to speak to the techniil press and its introverted approach to Ablicity over the years had damaged its lage and probably contributed to a deine in membership.
The Scottish area recently appointed x of its members to act as part-time ublic relations men with the function of riswering press criticism of road transom Hector Munro, MP struck a more alatable note in his paper, The Role of overnment in Industry, when he said that the message to the Government was clear: keep out.
He said that while track costs should be paid, rail operation should not be subsidised at the expense of road freight.
Mr Munro said that a future Conservative Government would change the Employment Protection Act to ensure less bias against the employer.
He said that the present Act inhibited employers engaging staff for peak periods.
The conference called for the business sessions to be extended to two days.