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RHA Year Book
ANOTHER hardy annual — the Road Haulage Association's haulage manual — made its appearence this week at a new price of £3 per copy including postage. For the second year, it hides the wealth of useful information under limp covers.
Though the mixture is very much as before, the section on labour relations has been rewritten to take into account the changes since it was last published and much of the other information has been up-dated. There new names among the li officers of the associa and the catalogue and I of the group training a ciations included in green-page section has 1 revised.
Members of the R receive a copy free but can obtain additional cc at E3 each, and non-nber's can buy a copy frorr R HA at Roadway Housi Upper Woburn Place, I don, WC I H OES s to bring it into opern and (b) impose and ene such restrictions as are onably required to mate or mitigate the Lilems identified. "We 'Id regard it as lamental that stage (b) d not be introduced in ince of stage (a)".
he FTA suggests that the mon weight limit for .night parking restrics should be 3',/, tons s (or 30 cwt unladen) as esenting a reasonable ssment of the level at :h overnight lorry parkin a residential area is y to cause environtal nuisance.
owever, pitching the level as low as this only makes sense given a liberal provision of designated onstreet -parking. Indeed, the use of large and small stretches of street where there are no houses is fundamental to the whole concept we are putting forward."
Shorter hours
The Association stresses the downward trend in the availability of cafes and short-term lorry parking facilities for drivers to take statutory breaks and rest periods; lorry parks should be sited in relation to the needs, not least, of overnight drivers.
Mindful of the shorter hours for drivers when EEC regulation 543 i 69 comes into operation the FTA considers there is a strong case for allowing trailer swopping on long-distance operations to be permitted in parts of certain motorway service areas.
The memorandum ,coneludes that planned, positive action to deal with lorry parking problems can achieve in the short to medium term real and worthwhile benefits for the community while imposing only marginal costs on industry,