'Transport Act fear unwarranted'
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• The fear which the Transport Act has struck into the heart of the road haulage industry is quite unwarranted. That was the opinion generally expressed at a business course arranged by Davies and Robson, transport and distribution consultants, in London on Wednesday and entitled "Quantity licensing and the transport manager'.
Mr. P. W. Reed, lecturer in economics at Reading University and part-time lecturer in transport studies at London, predicted that applications for special authorizations would be a test of comparative economics. The haulier would have to provide a detailed cost breakdown including such factors as value of reliability, viz, the costs incurred if a consignment were to fail to arrive within a reasonable or specified time. Joint costs would have to be determined by isolating what costs would be foregone had journeys not been undertaken: multi-leg journeys would also present the haulier with arbitrary calculations. The LA would have to give the benefit of the doubt where such arbitrary calculations had to be made to the haulier.