Conduct, commerce and competence
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■ IEXT WEEK'S meeting of the national council of the Road -Iaulage Association may decide if the Association should take .teps towards involvement in commercial activities to assist nembers. The question of appointing a commercial officer is mderstood to be one of the items on the agenda.
This was one of the alternaives proposed when the ational council decided not to dopt the Wells report on trodrig and standards of profesional conduct, because of legal dvice that the proposals would all foul of fair trading legisla i on.
CM this week received the ollowing letter from John Veils, author of the report and ormer RHA national chairman: " There is much debate going ;n throughout the road haulage ndustry on professionalism. 'he standards required for 'pro essional competence' a r e 'atered for in existing and pro;osed legislation both from the loE and the EEC and in •the qualifications required by the professional institutions. The criteria for establishing 'professional conduct' are nonexistent.
"I believe that standards of conduct can only be established by the industry itself despite the apparent pitfalls of the fair trading legislation. The members of the Road Haulage Association who believe, as I do, in the need for a code of professional conduct should press forward to create an industry of which they can feel proud to be a part, and an'Association, membership of which would denote a high standard of professional conduct."