Hauliers Discuss £3,000 Insurance Shock
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THE latest setback to operators I engaged in or contemplating Continental haulage—the announcement in September of the adoption by West Germany, Holland, Belgium, Italy, Yugoslavia, Austria and France of a minimum goods-intransit insurance cover amounting to 13,009 per ton plus consequential damage—was due to be discussed at a meeting of the International Committee of the Road Haulage Association scheduled to be held in London yesterday.
The Committee was to hear a report from two of its members who attended a recent meeting at the Ministry of Transport, where the insurance question and other matters arising from the Convention on the Contract for International Carriage of Goods by Road (CP441t) were discussed.
The R.H.A. International Committee has to consider whether, in its opinion, Britain should become a signatory to the Convention, one of the clauses in which is the 13,000 insurance one. This figure is very considerably above the average cover at present carried by British hauliers and which was previously carried by Continental hauliers.
Other matters which the International Committee was to discuss included the effect of the Common Market on labour conditions, rates, and vehicle dimensions, and whether the R.H.A. should consider sponsoring objections to applications before the Air Transport Licensing Board for air freight licences.