THE ROAD HAULIER AND THE TRANSPORT BILL IT is doubtful
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whether anybody can really be satisfied with the Transport Bill as it stands, and surely the road haulier who is not taken over is placed in a position of injustice which cannot be intended. Tied hand and foot, he is left to fight a privileged corporation in front and unrestricted competition of the C-licensee in the rear.. Would not the following solution meet all points? (1) Only that road transport to be nationalized which the railways own or in which they have investments. (2) Other A and B operatorsto be regulated as to-day.
(3) Existing C-licence conditions to apply only to vehicles in special categories, to be clearly defined in agreement with traders' associations, such as retail deliveries to households; salesman deliveries; carriage of commodities requiring specialized set-7 vices (ice-cream, tea-shop deliveries, such as 'Lyons's, etc.).
(4) Other vehicles not carrying for hire or reward to be put in a separate licence class, for which need would have to be proved as with hauliers' vehicles, the test broadly being unsuitability of the services of the Transport Commission.
Failing comPlete nationalization, this solution would " appear to be fair to all—Commission, haulier, trader. and the common people—and it would be administratively simple, in addition to which it would help to simplify the administrative work of the Transport Commission. FREDERICK SMITH. Northwood, Middlesex.