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Latest R.H.A. Activities
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Joint Road-transport Publicity Effort.
An excellent composite page dealing with road transport appeared in The Manchester Guardian on Tuesday last. The heading bore the Road Haulage Association's badge. The main feature was a lengthy article entitled "A New Industry and its Value to Commerce," which related the growth of road transport, the reasons for the 1930 and subsequent Acts, and gave details of the work of the R.H.A., its local personnel, also statistics of the number of persons engaged in road add rail transport.
A number of announcements from Lancashire transport concerns was also printed on the page. It appeared to be a valuable and educative co-operative effort.
Organizing Herefordshire Hauliers.
A meeting of hauliers was held at Kington, Herefordshire, on January 30, under the auspices of the Road Haulage Association, when Mr. G., F. Chambers occupiedthe chair. Mr. E. G. Whitaker, a member of the NatiOnal Council and of the West Mid land Area Committee, addressed the meeling and outlined the activities of the Association since its inception about four years ago.
As an indication of what might happen in the goods-transport industry, he pointed to the decrease in the number of passenger vehicles in use since the passing of the Road Traffic Act, 1930, and said that the only way to avert this possibility was by all hauliers joining a national body.
Mr. J. Foley Egginton, West Midland Area secretary, also spoke, and said that the meeting had been called with the object of setting up a district committee in Kington. There are already district committees at Hereford and Ross, and it was hoped that others would be formed to link up the scattered parts of Herefordshire. In stressing the importance of the district committees, he said that they could place before the area committees any problems peculiar to the district. In this connection, he stated that the question of farmers operating under C licences and carrying goods for neighbouring farmers had been taken up.
Higher Speeds for Goods Vehicles?
About 200 members and friends of the Road Haulage Association in the North Western Area attended the fourth annual dinner of the .Liverpool section of the R.H.A., a,t Liverpool,
on Saturday. One of the principal speakers was Mr. Donaldson Wright. He mentioned that the R.H.A. had doubled its membership in the past 12 months and it now commanded the allegiance of 8,000 hauliers. • Attention was, he continued, being given to the question of speed limits of goods vehicles of 21 tons and over, to bring them into line with those of passenger vehicles incorporating the same type of chassis. It did seem an anomaly that there should be a margin of 10 rn.p.h..in favour of passenger vehicles. Road transport provided employment for 500,000 more men than did any other form of transport, said Mr. Donaldson Wright, and contributed £67,000,000 a year in taxation, besides which hauliers in the aggregate paid £30,000,000 in rates.
It was proposed to make representations to the resp!onsible authorities for a modification of the burdens that road transport now had to bear.