R.H.A.'s Hopes Fail: New Forecast
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THE things that the Road Haulage I Association had expected to happen quickly after the change of Government had not occurred as soon as expected, Mr. Frank F. Fowler, national chairman, said at the• annual dinner of the Northern Area last Friday. He forecast that the Government's plans for denationalization would take effect by August, but that a further 18 months would elapse before they were fully implemented.
The trading community had testified that the efficiency and economy of the free haulier were entirely missing in nationalization, said Mr. Fowler. Railways were a necessity to the country, but they must be properly run. The solution of their problems did not lie in forcing-more goods on to the system, but in the direction of the surgeon's knife.
Aid. W. MeKeag, Lord Mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne, contended that if the industry had fought back at the time of the 1933 Act, it might not have been called upon to fight so hard since the end of the war.