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Success of the R.H.A. in the West
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Over 100 Hauliers Attend an Important Meeting at Paign ton
OVER 100 hauliers, drawn from a 50-mile radius, attended a meeting at Paignton, last week, when Mr. C. Hodgson (St. Austell), chairman of the Devon and Cornwall Area of the Road Haulage Association, spoke en the advantages of membership of the Association,' and Mr. Humphrey Cooke (St. Austell), area honorary secretary, gave an address on the legal aspect of the Road and Rail Traffic Act. Mr. J. Crews, chairman of the Exeter subarea, presided, and was supported by Messrs. F. T. Clarke (Exeter, honorary secretary), W. H. Burner and C. Worden (Plymouth, vice-chairman and honorary secretary respectively), and R. L. Anderson (divisional organizer).
Mr, Hodgson said that there were many more lorries on the road than were needed, and the Association had taken the view that vehicles put into service since November 7, 1933, the date of the passing of the Road and Rail Traffic Act, should not be encouraged. Local associations were useful only in that they could deal with local problems, but the haulage industry had reached a stage when only a national organization could put it back on a stable foundation.
Mr. Hodgson said that at one of the meetings he had attended, a man agreed that the Association was most valuable, but pointed out that he did not see his way to joining it because he would be prevented from rate-cutting.
The speaker saw no reason why there should not be 20,000 hauliers in the R.H.A. in a couple of years' time.
It was stated that certain railway lorries were running under trade plates and the haulier making the allegation said that he could obtain definite proof. Mr. Hodgson said that they had all heard of the extremely unfair persecution to which the business controlled by a prominent member of the R.H.A. had been subjected, and any evidence which would turn the tables would be welcomed.