T.R.T.A. Denies Opposition to E.E.C.
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QPEAKING on "Continental Opera tion " to a meeting of C-licensees in Birmingham on Wednesday, Mr. G. Turvey, assistant secretary of the Traders Road Transport Association, strongly refuted the suggestion that the Association had decided to oppose Britain's joining the E.E.C. He said that statements to this effect had appeared in certain sections of the National Press, presumably because the T.R.T.A. had reported unfavourably on the proposed change from leftto right-hand rule of the road in this country. To assume from this that the Association was necessarily against Common Market membership was quite wrong, •he said; no decision had been expressed.
Mr. Turvey also stressed the extra burden being borne by British operators on the Continent in the form of double taxation. They paid the full annual road fund tax in this country, plus proportional tax for the period that their vehicles were operating in other countries and there was no easy machinery for obtaining a refund of part of the British tax on these vehicles.