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RHA calls in costs survey consultants
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FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
THIE RHA has now decided that it cannot run its operating costs survey on its own. The decision has been taken to call in outside consultants to review the survey and formulate recommendations on the course to be followed to implement an effective system of collating and analysing the data obtained from hauliers and the service industries. It seems likely that this change of policy may have been influenced by the difficulty in finding a replacement for the former information officer, Mr. A. S. Norman.
This decision of the executive committee runs contrary to some of the ideas of the areas, and, in particular to the resolution of the Tipping Group which strongly advocated that the Association should take the plunge and spend a sizeable sum of money in setting up a properly organized and staffed statistical department.
It seems to some that the Association is being "penny wise—pound foolish" by avoiding the issue of setting up a proper statistical department. One of the great deficiencies of the industry has been its inability to produce its own statistics. One must be doubtful whether outside consultants without any specialist knowledge of road haulage will overcome this long standing weakness.