RHA set to get tough on blockades
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• The Road Haulage Association says it will sue the government of any country which disrupts the journeys of UK lorries through union blockades during the international day of protest about drivers' working hours on 8 September (CM 2026 August).
RHA spokesman Dan Hodges says the organisation is currently consulting solicitors about what legal action can be taken against either governments or individual transport unions if, as is feared, French and Spanish unions carry out blockade threats next month and in December.
RHA director general Steven Norris has already written to deputy prime minister John Prescott and 13U Transport Commissioner Neil Kinnock urging them to "take tive action".
The RHA is determined
pre-empend the sometimes devastating financial effects these blockades to have on UK hauliers.