Union backing SLICK CO-OPERATION irged for BOOSTS EXPORTS
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By John Darker
Pecorders
['HE Minister of Transport should use her
influence with the trade unions to get their pproval for the fitting of time and speed reorders where beneficial to goods vehicle operaon, said Mr. A. R. Butt, immediate past hairman of the RHA, last week.
Recorders would provide hauliers with indisutable evidence of delays at customers' premises nd at docks, he said. If this evidence were vailable it might be possible to carry out the commendations of the Prices and Incomes oard to make unreasonable standing time a ostly luxury for those who rendered it unaaidable.
Moreover, the registered record of vehicle seed and hours of driving would settle once rid for all the uninformed criticism levelled at the ansport industry from many quarters, including ie House of Commons.
Mr. Butt, speaking at the annual dinner-dance [the RHA Coventry, Rugby and North Warickshire sub-areas, said it was hard to underand how a Government which was continually leading that more goods should go by rail iould take no action to stop the trade union from ming private hauliers from liner train teriinals.