Praise for Vehicle Examiners
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ASTRONG case for all classes of road operator, goods and passenger, to. get get together " was made by Mr. Donaldson Wright, a member of the national council of Associated Road Operators, at the fourth annual dinner of the Midlands Area Coach and Transport Association, at Leicester, on Monday. "The sooner road operators get together, the sooner we shall be able to persuade the Government to see eye to eye with the needs of the road-transport industry," he declared.
Mr. A. W. Jackman, clerk to the East Midland Traffic Commissioners, said that a strong association of small road operators, such as his hosts represented, was necessary for the peace of the industry.
The chairman of the Association, Mr. J. E. Clarke, of Melton Mowbray, said that operators had feared that the Traffic Commissioners would be autocratic officials who would proceed to remove them from the road.. "My experience is that they have helped to keep us on the road," he said.
" Vehicle examiners have proved a real blessing in disguise to us," he continued. "They have shown that the secret of success is to keep, your vehicles in proper running order, attending to the little faults as they arise, instead of leaving them to take care of themselves, to develop into serious faults," Mr. S. W. Nelson, clerk to the West Midland Commissioners, said that operators must have been impressed with the patience with which the Traffic Commissioners obtained from an applicant his case, which he himself ought to have been able to put clearly. With the best will in the world, they could not make a case for an applicant. The Commissioners could not be counsel for the applicant, as well as judge of his application.
Mr. Perry, secretary, emphasized thu fact that operators in the East Midland Area should endeavour to view the industry from a national standpoint.
The guests included the chief constables of Leicester and Leicestershire, Mr. 0. J. B. Cole and Capt. C. E. Lynch-Blosse, and Messrs. F. A. Walker, R. Birch, Plaits and Gray, of A.R.O.