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BIG PLANS TO STABILIZE RATES. "
1 AM certain that, in the course of the next 12 months, possibly less, we shall establish a yardstick, or, at -least, an instrument by which to measure haulage rates all over the country," said Mr. L. J. Rix, a member of the national council of the Road Haulage Association, when speaking at a meeting of operators held under the auspices of the R.H.A., at Huddersfield, last Friday. He stated that the main rates committee of the R.H.A., sitting in London, was now considering certain suggestions which will provide a basis for establishing equitable rates all over the country. The idea was to establish a datum line for fixing the rate at which certain classes of goods should be carried as full loads for any given tonnage over a given distance by vehicles travelling a certain mileage a week. still think we have got to face further legislation," said Mr. Rix. "Before the Road and Rail Traffic Act; 1933, is out of the way we have the new Road Traffic Bill, 1934, before the House of Commons, and this sort of thing will go on, I am afraid, for some years yet." Speaking of the R.H.A.'s link with the British Road Federation, Mr: .Rix said that the latest step in the B.R.F. was the formation of an operators' section, on which the R.H.A. was represented by its president and chairman. Any matter which had a general bearing on road transport, as well as being of direct importance to road transport operators, was passed through the operators' section of the B.R.F. for Government attention. Mr. A. H. Britterwick, chairman of the Leeds sub-area committee of the R.II.A., who presided, appealed to hauliers to organize. Mr. M. C. Vickers, divisional organizer, stated that a Yorkshire Regional Committee of the R.H.A. would shortly be established.
GROWING ACTIVITY IN HEREFORDSHIRE.
AT a recent meeting of the Hereford.shire committee of the Road Haulage Association, Mr. V. W. C. Colan and Mr. R. W. Tanner were appointed to represent the branch at conferences in the West Midland area. The secretary (Mr. C. Lerry) reported that membership was now about 50.
RAPID, PROGRESS IN THE WEST.
QEVERAL new members were en
rolled • by the newly forffied Plymouth and District brancn ot the Road Haulage Association (Devon and Cornwall area) at a general meet ing at -Plymouth, on April 5. Mt C. Westlake, the temporary cnairman, presiding. Mr. Charles Hodgson, manager of the Heavy Transport Co., Ltd. (St. Austell), chairman of the county committee, mentioned that whereas a year ago there were only 10 members of the R.H.A. in Cornwall, to-day there were over 150.
Mr, Humphrey Cooke,' solicitor, St. Austell, area honorary secretary, gave a lucid explanation of the new licensing provisions.
NEW ACT: GLASGOW MEETING.
AMEETING will be held at Berkeley Hall, St. Andrew's Hall, Glasgow, on Friday. April 20, at 7.30 p.m., when Mr. Roger W. Sewill, M.A., chairman of the Road Haulage Association, will speak on the new Road and Rail Traffic Act. The meeting will be held under the auspices of the Road Haulage Association,•and has been arranged in conjunction with Morris Commercial Cars, Ltd., and Messrs. A. and D. Fraser, the well-known dealers of Glasgow.