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Pattern for professionalism
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John Wells' report for the RHA could—if adopted— spearhead efforts to put more professionalism into the road haulage industry. Aside from the dead hand of compulsory transport managers' licensing, it is the only foreseeable spur to tidying up the industry. It is an opportunity which must not be missed. The measures proposed—guidance on minimum vehicle earnings, registering approved hauliers and freight brokers,and creating a limited company to offer commercial services to members—are not themselves revolutionary; some are almost hardy annuals. But put together in the Wells package they are the building blocks on which a sound, professional and respected haulage industry can be based. That such a report has been needed at all—and only now completed—is an indictment of operators' failure to grasp the nettle of setting professional standards and their lack of trust in one another.
When an industry is as vital to the economy as road haulage it must keep its house in order lest someone else is tempted to take a hand. No one pretends that the uneconomic and the unethical can be eliminated overnight, but the new plan shows how the RHA could lead in curing the industry's ills, Long-term it may be, but this is a job which can no longer be shirked.