'Transport stop-go too long'
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FOR too long the transport industry had suffered from political stop-go policies, said Mr. Roy Walker, NAFWR president, at the annual lunch of the East Midlands area of the RHA, in Nottingham on Tuesday. Even in this pre-election period he found it difficult to get any firm promise of intent—transportwisefrom party politicians. We must not allow politicians to make the same mistakes twice about transport.
Road vehicles needed frequent replacement if standards of performance and fitness were to be maintained. Failure to do just that could have more serious repercussions on the road than when machinery failed in a factory. So argued Mr. J. B. Mitchell against the exclusion of the road transport operator from the benefits of the new investment incentives proposed in the Government's White Paper.
The tri-partite machinery of BR, RHA and BRS had made little progress Mr. Mitchell disclosed. The longer the delay the greater the chance of suspicion and distrust.