R.H.A. Dealing With Resolutions
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ROMPT action was taken last week I by the national executive committee of the Road Haulage AssociatiOn on 12 resolutions passed at the Association's conference at Bournemouth.
The chairman's committee will deal with four of the resolutions. These protest against Government protection for the railways, call for the abolition of records of oil fuel consumed, demand the easing of the burden on employers in connection with offences concerning drivers' hours and log sheets, and declare that the interpretation now being placed on normal user was never intended by the 1933 Act.
• The public relations committee, who next meet on November 19, will consider a motion that advertising in trade journals should be sustained next year.
The highways committee of the National Road Transport Federation have been asked to deal with resolutions requesting the provision of further parking sites to ease the flow of traffic, and asking that all obstructions, such as trees and lighting standards, should be removed from the verges of trunk roads'.
Further inquiries are to be made about the possibility of establishing national and regional consultative committees of the R.H.A., Federation of British Industries, Association of British Chambers of Commerce and other appropriate bodies. The finance committee will handle a resolution suggesting that fares to and from places of employment should be chargeable against income tax.
A proposal that vehicles should be taxed on maximum gross weight has gone to the vehicles committee of the N.R.T.F. Efforts are being made to obtain examples of damage done to wheels and tyres by the use of portable weighbridges that accommodate only one wheel.
Area committees are being asked to supply further information on C-hiring, as a result of a resolution proposing that there should be greater enforcement of the regulations to ensure that drivers of C-hiring vehicles were properly employed by the licence holder.
BLAMELESS DRIVER PAYS I N the Queen's Bench Division, last week, a motorist whose car had been pushed by another into a street refuge was required to pay £25 to Kensington Corporation for repairs to the refuge. Lord Parker, Lord Chief Justice, said that the London Government Act, 1939, gave a speedy remedy for a local authority to recover repair expenses, without having to consider who was to blame.
ADVANCED ENGINEERING SCHOOL
AN advanced school of automobile 1-1. engineering is to be established at Cranfield, Beds. It will provide instruction in relation to the needs of the motor industry at post-graduate level. The school will be sponsored and supported by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and Ministry of Education.