FIGHT HARDER, SAYS B.R.F.
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IF hauliers be nationalized, the private 1 trader operating his own vehicles will sooner or later be subjected to nationalization or its equivalent in restrictive regulations.
If the trader be brought into the scheme "he will be subjected to the formalities, delays and inconveniences inseparable from the workings of a huge State monopoly.
This statement is made by the British Road Federation in urging an intensification of the campaign against the nationalization of road transport without a public inquiry: The B.R.F. points out that the Government has so far refused to give an undertaking that traders operating their own vehicles will be left out of any proposed scheme of nationalization. The whole transport system of the country must be considered to be in peril, says the B.R.F.
It is pointed out that C licensees in January, 1946, numbered nearly 150,030 and operated more than 300,000 vehicles.
Referring to the dangers that fact the ancillary user should transport be nationalized, the B.R.F. emphasizes that the Transport Advisory Council has categorically stated thaf "there should be an unfettered right on the part of the trader to select the form of transport which he approved and which is most :onvenient and economic for his purpose."