RHA votes for quantity licensing
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• By a narrow majority the Road Haulage Association national executive council last week voted to tell Mr John Peyton, Minister for Transport Industries, that it prefers an EEC licensing policy that embodies quantity as well as quality control.
In reaching this policy decision the council concerned itself mainly with the present British licence system, as laid down in the 1968 Transport Act, and with a draft EEC regulation on the "introduction of common rules for access to the national and international road haulage profession and the control of capacity in the national road haulage sector". The Association's decision is in favour of a modified version of the latter document.
That the voting would be narrowly divided was forecast last week by CM whose investigations had shown that, before the council meeting on March 29, opinions in area and functional groups, from whom a referendum had been requested, was virtually "split down the middle".