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by Richard Reed THE Continental Freight Drivers' Club now has 19 area officers covering some 30 counties in the UK. The aim is to cover every county by the end of 1977.
The position of area officers arose as a result of the CFDC's continuing expansion and the need to have local representation. because 1. It is important to establish good communications between the club and its members, so enabling the members to make their views known at local as well as a national level.
2. Under the international agreement of the Union Internationale des Chauffeurs Routiers, the CEDC must offer assistance to foreign members who run into trouble while here So each area officer is forming his own local cell of lawyers, doctors, interpreters and so on.
The CFDC will soon be able to provide the same measure of protection that its members already receive when travelling abroad. Each member is provided with an International Handbook, containing names, addresses and telephone numbers of local offices and lawyers of the national associations who are members of the UICR, whom they are entitled to contact, should they run into trouble.
The UICR is rapidly becoming a multi-national association. IT comprises eight Western European countries and represents 600,000 lorry drivers; IWO more countries have applied to join. These applications should be approved at the UICR International Congress in Turin this month.