Road Haulage Has Little to Fear'
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THE future of private hauliers under the Labour Government was the theme of speakers at the annual dinnerdance of the West Cumberland sub-area of the Road Haulage Association at Keswick last week.
The R.H.A. legal adviser, Mr. T. H. Campbell Wardlaw, that day received 8,000 votes as a Liberal candidate in the election at South Shields, and he was sure that the Liberal cause would one day emerge victorious. We were living, he said, in changing, stirring times.
Your industry has little to fear from the new Government ", Mr. Wardlaw went on. "I do not believe the Government can do anything to damage you, or that it has a majority giving power to bring in any drastic alterations. Indeed, I do not know whether it ever had any intention of nationalizing transport on the lines it took in 1947."
Mr. J. Clark, assistant general manager of the West Cumberland Farmers' Trading Society, could foresee no striking changes in road haulage for some time. How many would agree, he asked, that it was a pity that Mr. Marples had gone'? Politics apart, he thought Mr. Marples had carried out his job with enthusiasm and in many respects very successfully, and real improvements in road communications had been accomplished.