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John Wells to investigate RHA member services
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by CM reporter
MR JOHN P WELLS, the immediate past national chairman of the Road Haulage Association, who retired from road haulage and the Association in October, has been invited by his former colleagues to look at ways in which the RHA could be of more practical help to members than at present.
The decision to appoint Mr Wells in a consultancy capacity was taken at last week's national council meeting of the RHA and his first report is expected by March 1975.
A spokesman for the Association said that the investigation would be of a general nature and that the terms of reference were very wide. For -unspecified reasons he said that the Association did not want any "publicity" for the project at this stage.
Mr Wells was equally guarded in his comments when contacted by CM this week but he agreed that his brief was wide and gave him ample scope to exercise the wide range of experience he had gained as a haulier.
This latest RHA move is ' almost as if the study group report on co-operation published in 1966 had been resurrected. This recom mended members to form co-operatives for traffic exchange, joint maintenance and bulk buying, and suggested that the Association should extend its services into credit facilities, discount purchasing, emergency repairs, legal aid and the provision of driver accommodation.
As reported in CM on February II 1966, the majority of the membership showed little enthusiasm for the co-operative ventures but Mr J. M. Silbermar (now a national vicechairman) said that while proposals for . freighi exchanges etc were then "pie in the sky" he thought that ir 10 years time the industr3 would probably be ready foi them.
Certainly some of the 196( suggestions will figurf among Mr Wells' studies Already there is speculatior that "the Wells report' might become a major iten on the agenda at the 111-111 conference at Bournemoutl next October.