Road-Rail Rates Co-ordination Corning?
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A RESOLUTION in favour of approaching railway-officials in Yorkshire, to ask if they are prepared to receive a deputation to discuss the question of road-rail co-ordination in the stabilization of freight rates, was passed unanimously at a meeting in Leeds on September 3 of a committee of Associated Roaa Operators appointed
to consider rates stabilization. The feeling of the meeting was that before any schedule of road-haulage rates is submitted to the Yorkshire Licensing Authority it is desirable to ascertain the railway attitude and, if possible, to come to some arrangement for rates maintenance.
Two points are made in favour of the overtures. One is that if they led to an agreement on road-rail co-ordination it would be a safeguard to rates stabilization on the road. The other is that if the railway interests refused to consider the matter, then road operators would know just where they . stand.
It is realized in Yorkshire, of course, that the question of road-rail coordination on rates is a national one, and it is felt that wider discussions might follow the Yorkshire move.
Should road-rail talks take place in Yorkshire, it is anticipated that they will particularly concern rates for longdistance traffic, but that rates for local traffic, where there is road-rail competition, will also come within the scope of the conversations. The view is put forward that if co-ordination is to he practicable, there will have to be a big reduction in the large number of way classifications of goods.