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IF YOU use it, a lorry brought it, and hauliers should make that fact known said Road Haulage Association national chairman Jack Male at the weekend.
Speaking at the annual dinner of the RHA Leeds area he said that the demand for freight transport is inevitably linked with the demand for goods. It must increase as the gross domestic product goes up.
He also commented that any increase in the demand for goods transport could only be met in the main by increases in road transport.
"This weapon must be used at every opportunity if road hauliers are effectively to combat that group of determined people we have been watching on television this week disrupting a public inquiry into necessary road improvements," said Mr Male.
He warned that it would be a hard struggle which could be lost if the industry became complacent.
"Somehow the fact that the lorry has a purpose and is doing an essential job has escaped the attention of many of the anti-truck lobby," he said.
Mr Male described the campaign of the road haulage industry as fighting ignorance with facts. He said that it would be a very foolish person who claimed that everything in the haulier's garden was rosy and he acknowledged that there is scope for improvement.