PROGRESS OF GOVERNMENT HAULAGE SCHEME WHILST the response of-commercialVV vehicle
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operators to the Government invitation for them to join the "hard core" of vehicles and " Defence Lines " has not been overwhelming, yet assurances have been given that there will be an ample number of entrants.
We would emphasize, however, that speed is essential. The Government wants to " get en with the job" in connection with both these categories.
Do not forget that for the "hard core," the vehicles required are those most suitable for trunk haulage--in other words, nothing of under 6-tons carrying capacity. Also, the Ministry would prefer to have entrants in groups, of, say, not fewer than sit vehicles from partieular operators, rather than for large numbers of people to enter a individual machines GOVERNMENT WILL ASSIST IN OBTAINING SPARES
PrOTfullest possible assistance to erators and repairers who have difficulty in obtaining spare parts1.'011 be accorded by the Ministry of War Transport and the Ministry of Supply. Many people have not fully grasped the implication of the Certificate of Need procedure.
If such a certificate be returned from . a factory endorsed by the maker to the ' effect that he cannot supply or, in the case of certain makers, if the part' does not arrive within 21 days, the operator should apfly to the Regional Certifying and Maintenance Officer of the M. of W.T. for Government help in obtaining the part. If he be satisfied that the vehicle is normally engaged on essential transport, this officer will issue, a Spares Shortage Certificate to the iniatry of Supply, the , Progress Officer of which at the factory will take all steps possible to accelerate :
delivery. , • GRAIN PRODUCERS HIT' BY TRANSPORT SHORTAGE
GRAIN producers in the North of Scotland are 'seriously perturbed over a definite shortage of transport which they claim ta be adversely affecting both tlie growers and the Nation's food supplies. Oat growers are said to be particularly affected, and with this acute lack of transport they couple the various marketing restrictions. It would be prudent to regard the present problem as a combined one rather than as a purely transport matter.
Every storage place in the area isstatedto be filled to overflowing and, as grain • naturally deteriorates, the growers are urging that the necessary facilities should be provided now. The cereal committee of the N.F.U. and the Chambers for Aberdeen, Banff and Kincardineshire have made representations on the need for improved transport. In addition, potato transport in the more southerly parts of Scotland still remains acute, although some relief has been obtained 'by the shipment of cargoes to England, thus relieving some of the road and rail transport‘normally used for this purpose.