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RHA trim down plan

6th February 1982
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RADICAL PROPOSALS for the restructuring of the Road Haulage Association come up for final approval at the end of next month, and could take effect from early 1983.

An RHA national council meeting on Monday agreed to refer director-general Freddie Plaskett's proposals to area members, with an eight-district structure being the favoured option.

This proposal, known as the evolutionary option and likely to net "considerable" savings, would mean the end of existing area offices in Hull, Sheffield, Plymouth, Swansea, Nottingham, and Winchester.

The Northern area would be redesignated as a district and retained for the time being, all of Yorkshire would be served from Leeds, the West Midlands office at Tipton would have its scope extended to cover part of the East Midlands area, the Eastern area would take over Lincolnshire and South Humberside from East Midlands, the Bristol office would cover South Wales and the South West, and the Metropolitan office would cover the existing Metropolitan and Southern areas.

Mr Plaskett explained to CM that the plans envisage the appointment of assistant secretaries in order to strengthen the association, and they will be employed to sell the RHA and its services to members on their own doorsteps.

Concurrently, a new computer with visual display unit is being installed at the RHA's new head office in London, and it will have sufficient capacity, not only to handle all accounts and mem bership records, but such new services as a costing service which is being planned.

Mr Plaskett is now carrying out a review of the RHA's committee structure and the whole organisation of its meetings, with a view to having a new regime in operation by the time national council elections take place in 1984.

The need to alter articles of association means that this must be a slower process.

He said that the details of the restructuring have still to be finalised, and added: "I will see that the RHA maintains its image as a good employer and so far as possible looks after its existing staff. I don't want to throw away service and expertise."

But he warned that it is inevitable that some junior staff will be made redundant, adding: "You can't have an omelette without breaking eggs."

Mr Plaskett said he was encouraged by the national council's response to the proposals, saying it was "guarded, but not discouraging".


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