" R.H.A. Fighting for Every Industry
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THElight the Road Haulage Association have undertaken is not only against the renationalization of independent hauliers. It is also for the right of industry to transport its goods where, how and when it likes at a price it can afford.
This was stated by Mr. R. B. Brittain, chairman of the Association's Eastern Area, when he spoke at Ipswich Subarea's dinner last week.
" It is a fight, even if indirectly, for the right of everyone in the country to decide for themselves what they would like, and to have it at a reasonable price, instead of having to take what some superior planning authority says they must have." he declared.
Industry had shown that it wanted the competitive and rapid service provided by road transport and the R.H.A. were determined that this service should continue. Nationalization would undoubtedly put an end to it.
Without competition there would be nothing to encourage long-established carriers, such as the railways, to study how to improve their service in an effort to stop business drifting away from them. Left Wing spokesmen had already made it clear that they would not leave the C-licence loophole for frustrated customers if haulage were rcnationalized.
"Britain today is in the midst of a fight for world markets and we cannot have our chances ruined and our country impoverished and condemned to austerity because Left Wing politicians wish tc control how and when goods are sent Sc market," he added.