• Glyn Samuel (the RHA's national chairman for this year)
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has suggested, quite understandably, that with the advent of the Channel Tunnel, hauliers should be thinking now in terms of joint road/rail international operations, making the best out of a project which is, after all, rail based.
They should, perhaps, emulate the French, the Dutch and the Germans whose road and rail men have been cooperating for years to take advantage of the long-distance economies afforded by the Kangaroo system in France, Trailstar in Holland and the Huckepack system in Germany.
In the mid-sixties CM carried many stories about these ingenious piggyback methods, and this old Hawk recalls that suggestions that UK hauliers and railwaymen should bury the hatchet and work together were met with, sometimes hostile derision. Those were the days when it was not infra dig in CM to mention the State-owned BRS on the same page as a free-enterprise RHA member, and when containers were thought of as an innovation that wouldn't really catch on!