Road Haulage Association

Road Haulage Association

The Road Haulage Association (abbreviated as The RHA) provides dedicated campaigning, advice, information and business services specially tailored for the haulage industry, including audits, risk assessments and contracts of employment. It also offers a large range of training, from Digital Tachograph training to Safe Loading.

Its head office is based in Weybridge, England, and other offices are found in Peterborough, Edinburgh, Bristol and Bradford. Each of these regions has helpdesks and Area Manager's to provide support for the Associations members. The company is currently headed by Chief Executive and former Politician Roger King.

The RHA provide dedicated campaigning in the haulage industry and were involved quite largely in the United Kingdom fuel protest of 2000, which was a major protest against the price of fuel and fuel tax.

Digital Tachographs

Since the launch of Digital Tachograph's in May 2006, The RHA has been greatly involved in the implementation of the technology into the haulage industry, including the introduction of digital data downloading tools and digital analysis in the form of Smartanalysis software.

The association also provides dedicated training for use of Digital Tachographs.

Campaign for Safe Road Design

In July 2008 the AA became a partner in the Campaign for Safe Road Design which is calling on the UK government to make safe road design a national transport priority cite web|url=http://www.saferoaddesign.com/media/2024/safe%20roads%20final.doc|title=SAFE ROAD DESIGN TO SAVE UK £6BN EVERY YEAR|accessdate=2008-10-01 |format=Word DOC |publisher=Campaign for Safe Road Design ] .

References

External links

* [http://www.rha.net www.rha.net] - Road Haulage Association Homepage

* [http://www.rharrg.net www.rharrg.net] - RHA Rescue and Recovery Group Website

* [http://www.roadway.co.uk www.roadway.co.uk] - Roadway Magazine


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