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B Licence Probe • Nearly Complete
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AN investigation into the issue certain B licences to haulage co/ tractors which the Cardiff police hav been carrying out for the past si months, is now nearly complete. Th licences were alleged to have been issue at a time when a large number r operators wanted to cash in on iF transport of shale to the Spencer Stec works site at Llanwern, near Newport.
Inquiries have been going on into th . possibility that money may have bee involved. Senior members of the CIL were called in by the Ministry of Tram port -in Cardiff after they received con plaints about the number of B carrien licences. Members of the Ministry sta were interviewed and then the inquir spread to other parts of South Wale: Detectives have questioned haulage cor tractors, drivers and transport operative:
The South Wales traffic area wet unable to comment when approached o Wednesday by The Commercial Moto,
Rates Compared QPEAKING on transport and the Corn 1.--) mon Market to the Southern Area o the Road Haulage Association in Abing don on November 8, Mr. R. H. frisoll executive secretary of the Road Haulag Association, drew attention to the dis parity in hauliers' operating costs Wel existed within the Common Market.
The highest costs were in France wher. it had been estimated that the price o a truck with trailer was 25 per cent highe than the average in the rest of the E.E.0 and repair and maintenance charges 174 per cent higher. This might well he dui to the fact that the French motor manu facturers were "feather bedded" by thei Government.
How did British operators compare? I was difficult to draw exact comparisons but the Long. Distance Group of th/ R.H.A. had in -fact conducted certair studies earlier in the year in conjunctior with a Dutch expert.. As a result, a ver3 approximate comparison of present actua Dutch and British long-distance rates pet ton for different mileages had been drawr up.
Mr. Insoll presented this comparison tc the meeting and pointed out that th( British rates were based upon the R.H.A Guide. He also mentioned that, in review. ing the rates, it. should be remembered
that, owing to the small size of the Netherlands, there were few occasions fox rates covering distances over 150 miles.