Ready for direct action
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• Defiant hauliers are prepared to take direct action against rising fuel prices if this month's mass lobby on Parliament fails to change Government thinking.
Up to 70 South Wales hauliers gave the warning at a meeting in Fisliguard last Friday, while offering their full support to the lobby on 24 February backed by the Freight Transport Association, the Road Haulage Association and campaign group Trans-Action (CM28 Jan-3 Feb).
Frank Stears of Trans-Action, who was invited to the gathering, says the Welsh haulier's passion "did his heart good. They have had a gutful and will back Trans-Action 100% in anything we do after the lobby," he says.
Stears says Trans-Action has had a "good response" to the lobby date. But he is disappointed that he has heard nothing from Eddie Stobart, and feels the BHA and the FTA are not advertising the lobby strongly enough.
He adds that if the lobby is not successful, direct action may once again be the only way forward. "I pray it does not happen," says Stears, but what other industry in the IX could bring the country to its knees in two days?".
II The RHA says hauliers should gather at the Great Hall, Methodist Central Hall in London at 13:00hrs on 24 February. At 14:00hrs groups of 100 members will go into the Central Lobby at the House of Commons, while others rally outside Parliament and Downing Street. Another meeting of South Wales hauliers will be held on 26 February.