Freight Transport
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• The Freight Transport Association was formed on January 1 with the merging of the National Traders Traffic Association, Traders Co-ordinating Committee on Transport and the Traders Road Transport Association.
Until the new association's a.g.m. on April 29 its affairs will be governed by the former TRTA officers and national council under the presidency of Mr. G. F. Page. The officers have been strengthened, however, by the addition of Mr. L. A. Carey, of Reckitt and Colman Holdings Ltd. Mr. Carey was chairman of the NITA. Mr. J. A. McMullen, chairman of the TCC, and Mr. C. E. Sutton, president of the NTTA, have been elected honorary members of the national council of the new association.
The structure of the new body is being built on that of the TRTA, for which purpose the TRTA memorandum and articles of association were altered in December.
The TRTA secretariat will form the basic FTA secretariat with Mr. H. R. Featherstone, director, and Mr. G. Turvey, secretary. Mr. J. M. Guttridge, formerly the TRTA's press officer, becomes public relations officer of the new body.
The TRTA head office at Sunley House, Bedford Park, Croydon, becomes the head office of the association, and regional service will be available through the eight former divisional offices.
Existing services will be continued in full, including a vehicle maintenance inspection scheme, finance and insurance facilities, legal defence, international transport advisory and TIR carnet assistance. Detailed information services will include a year book, monthly journal, drivers' handbook and also specialist conferences.
On the user front the association will be concerned particularly with the standards of service offered by the railways, road hau tiers, air lines and shipping companies; also conditions of carriage and facilities for parcels and sundries traffic. In particular. during 1969 it will be in close consultation with the Government and National Freight Corporation over the implementation of the Transport Act, and with the railways over wagon load traffic. It will also be concerned, along with other bodies, with the Government's plans for port re-organization. New services are being planned relating particularly to measures in the recent Act, such as operators' licensing, transport managers' licensing, transport productivity and drivers' hours.