Hauliers urged to co-operate to oust the cowboy
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the undoubted mess the I should stop drivers leaving
the UK with false documc (permits should be issued at r
of exit to an identified repres tative of the licensed operal and the Department should t a greater interest in what h pened abroad. The RHA sho tighten up on access to meml ship and the learned institu should get more involved in management problems. ' RTITB, also, had been slow offer training for the Middle E; He urged the various bodies get together quickly and taki more active part.
John Wells felt customers w partly to blame for the pres situation; they should be prepa to accept a rate which left haulier with some profit al covering costs,
Miss F. McConnell (DoE) s the Department might be part "management" but it could assume a managing director is She could not accept Mr Sherri suggestion about the way to d with permit evasion; the new ternational Road Haulage Pens Act was a better weapon. But 1. thanked CM for what it had do: saying that without CM a others the new Act would ne) have been got through Panl ment.
On the servicing side, delega were told that Dunlop and Mid lin operated credit service s: tems as far as Greece and ti the former company was ni making plans to go into Turk and beyond. Medical represf tatives from the Army and t MRC explained some of t hazards and requirements of woi ing in very hot, humid conditic and said that the danger po could be measured by a WE proved instrumental method. T obese driver or one sufferi from circulatory or skin troubl would certainly be at a disadve tage in Middle East conditions.
Mr P. Hartnack, Department Trade and Industry, said that might be possible for DTI col mercial officers returning Ire the Middle East to give first-ha: trade advice to groups 'hauliers.
Throughout the symposit there was repeated emphasis reliability as a key factor of t Middle East operation — reli bility of communications and t: associated services as well as tl reliability of men and machim
(A further report on the syr posium will be published in tie week's issue)