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Talks under way on joint BR-THC-RHA service
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PARCELS SCHEME 'OF SOME MAGNITUDE'
AJOINT road-rail service for the carriage of parcels and sundries is no longer merely a remote possibility. A scheme "of some magnitude" is now being discussed by the railways, the Transport Holding Co., and the RHA.
This was revealed by Mr. P. H. R. Turner, chairman of the RHA, at the annual dinner of the Association's Central London subarea last Friday. He added: "There are good reasons to suppose that such a commercially sound co-operative scheme is acceptable in principle to the operators of inland freight transport, and that, once launched, it would provide an efficient and economic service for trade and industry.
"Much will depend, of course, on the constructive goodwill of the Government, to whom I
present the idea as promising and deserving 4 active encouragement. The scheme is a challeng both to those of our members who will wish I take a direct part as load carriers, and also other members who, if the results come up expectation, will wish to participate in simils organizations designed to deal with other type of traffic.
"The principle that has stimulated and sustaine us is clear. If we are not hampered by too muc Government interference the transport industr will, of its own accord, devise the sounclei and most efficient method of coping with th nation's goods traffic.
"To us, this principle is sound common sense If it can only be pursued successfully we in th RHA will have more scope for putting othe plans into effect and taking really constructiv action in many fields. For example, we shoul be collaborating more closely with vehicl manufacturers on the planning of the kind c vehicles that would best suit our future need: and we should be preparing more rigorous' for the possibility that Britain may join Europe with all that this implies in the sphere of transport' said Mr. Turner.
"This kind of forward-looking activity is no of course, something entirely new. But progres in the past has been hampered because of th lack of a firm commercial and political back ground, and because we in the road haulag industry have become so used to upheavals, an threats of upheavals, that far too much of th time we have had to keep looking over ou shoulders instead of straight ahead.
"For more years than we care to remember w have had hanging over us the threat of restrictiv legislation. This has led to defensive and ever negative policies, and has sometimes thwarter plans for the proper development of a grea and important industry. Let us hope that thi long, frustrating phase, will soon be replacedbâ– one of really constructive and self-confiden activity."