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Govt keeps low profile
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HE GOVERNMENT will not tell Idustry how to send its freight, ransport Minister Norman pwler assured road hauliers ist week.
Speaking to the Road Haulage ssociation at Solihull, he said: t is not the Government's job a decide how freight should be ?.nt. That decision should be left a the customer." And he added at there is no question of the overnment deciding what eight should go by rail.
In a speech which underlined le Government's policy of conlining public expenditure, Mr owler commented on the rogress of the current wage kind in haulage.
He said: "The Government as made it clear that public secsr wage settlements in this lund must be much lower than st time. That lead has already een taken in the private sector, id nowhere more so than in re road haulage industry."