R.H.A. and Denationalization
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A NTICIPAT1NG the possibility of a tA General Election in the autumn, the national council of the Road Haulage Association is likely to hold a meeting in September to consider the steps which it would like to see taken to denationalize road haulage.
When Mr. Peter Thorneycroft spoke in the debate on transport in the House of Commons a month ago, he made it clear that there had been a slight change in the Conservative Party's programme for road transport. Originally, the party proposed is clean sweep of the nationalized road transport system and its complete return to free enterprise.
Mr. Thorneycroft said, in the House, that the 25-mile radius limit on the free haulier would be abolished and an opportunity would be given to those who had been driven out of haulage to come back into it. He foresaw the continuance of a nationalized road haulage undertaking, but one reorganized • regionally.
Until the R.H.A. national council meets, it is impossible to say whether this amended policy accords with the wishes of the industry, but inquiries A30 suggest that there is unlikely to be any fundamental conflict of opinion between the Conservative Party and the R.H.A.
The question of denationalization will undoubtedly be raised at the Association's conference at Torquay in October, and the council will then have a firm policy to place before members.