'Responsibility Must Accompany Opportunities'
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4-1 A CRITICAL time for road haulage
' as a whole would come in the next few months, said Aid. W. R. Hargrave at Ilkley on Friday. Because of the national railway plans enormous opportunities would be created for road transport but these would be balanced by • enormous responsibilities. If any individual concern or organization thought that any transfer Would benefit only road operators, that would be a travesty of the present position. Without dignified responsibility and properly ordered negotiations the opportunities would be frustrated.
Ald. Hargrave was speaking at the annual dinner of the Road Haulage Association, Yorkshire (West Riding) • Area.
Integration, co-ordination and Co. Operation were terms that had been._donc" to death in recent weeks, • Observed. •Mr. D. O. Good; R.H.A..national chairman. However, the railways, SritiSh, -Road Services and the R.H.A: had agreed that there were spheres where they could cooperate to the good of trade and industry
and for. their own advantage. Surely the three could,. be trusted' id' work together without some Planner watching „over them, wititing to join their hands when this secined" appropriate, he said.