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R.H.A. Policy and Leadership Reviewed
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A DRAFT policy statement and reports PA from the areas on the question of the appointment of a president—paid or otherwise—were matters considered by the Road Haulage Association's National Executive Committee on Wednesday, and National Council yesterday.
Mr. R. N. Ingram, national chairrnan, forecast at the Association's conference last October (The Commercial Motor, October 17) that the policy statement would deal with licensing, problems affecting the capital and financial structure of the industry, ownership of the industry, relations with other bodies, including the British Transport Commission, labour relations and rates. When approved, the statement will be circulated.
It is understood that all but one of the areas had submitted views on the question of the appointment of a president. Numerically, the majority of the areas appear to be opposed to any change -in the present arrangements for the leadership of the Association.
Roads were also considered at both meetings. A resolution from last year's conference about the appointment of a public highway authority was one of the
matters on the agenda. Another was a plea for uniformity in street lighting and road surfaces from the Metropolitan and South Eastern Area.
The West Midland Area urged that the idea of a maintenance advisory committee, which has been so successful in the West ' Midlands, should be extended to other areas. [This point is made in a leading article in The Commercial Motor on December 12, 1958.]
Another important item was the public relations campaign to start on March 1.
Reports were received of cases in which employers had been prosecuted for incorrect entries on drivers' records when they could not reasonably have been held to have knowledge of the inaccuracies.
The Metropolitan and South Eastern Area asked that the railways should be requested to include Saturday as a free day when charging demurrage.
Well down the agenda was a request for support for a scheme to protect the vehicles of express carriers against theft. A proposal by London operators to band together for mutual protection was reported in The Commercial Motor on January 16.