Western Hauliers Want Interworking
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APLAN for interworking will be
discussed at Plymouth on September 4 by the long-distance hauliers' committee of the Devon and Cornwall Area of the RoadIlaulage Association. Proposals are being prepared in the hope of preventing rale-cutting, promoting the flow of traffic and combating the Labour Party's renationalizalion scheme.
Mr. W. E. Foster, secretary of the Devon and Cornwall Area, asked members for their ideas on interworking. • The replies were fruitful and two members in particular, were completely in favour of the scheme. They were Mr. L. G. Valiance, chairman of the Devon and Cornwall long-distance committee, and Mr. T. S. Lamey, vicechairman of The North Devon sub-area.
They believe that a strong organiza lion, with members bound by a cede of conduct fthe terms of which are now under review at national level], is the answer to most of the problems facing free-enterprise hauliers.
Mr. Larncy told a representative of The Commercial Motor: " We must have some organization to prove to the next Government that the transport of this country runs as efficiently as is possible" The interworking scheme envisages report centres throughout the country, it is understood.
An idea on these lines. was ,propounded at the Association's annual conference last October and was approved bY a majority of the dele gates. • The scheme on the occasion was sponsored by Mr, V. A. Neatherway and Mr. F. Rudman.