Haulage Pool Suggestion in Yorkshire
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A LARGE-SCALE amalgamation of ./-1. road-haulage businesses in the Yorkshire heavy woollen district was pictured as a development which might ultimately follow the formation of a haulage pool by operators in that area; when the question of establishing such a pool was discussed at a meeting of the Heavy Woollen District Transport Association, held in Dewsbury last week.
Mr, T. Jackson, hon. secretary of the Association, suggested that a post-war situation might arise in which the concentration of the smaller haulage businesses might be essential to self-preservation. Apart from that consideration, such concentration promised an economic advantage in the reduction of overhead charges, and he thought that the M.O.W.T. would regard it favourably as tending to promote greater efficiency.
Other suggestions made in discussion were that amalgamations on the lines indicated would make for rate § 'stabilization, and would furnish greater •COTEI
petitive strength against powerful haulage interests.
Explaining at the outset the basis of operation of the type of pool in question, Mr. Jackson said that, when a pool member had the offer of more traffic than he could handle in an individual capacity, he passed on the surplus to the pool. The manager of the pool took steps to place that traffic with some other operator in the pool, and, if unable to clear it in that way, he would take other measures, such as contacting a pool in the district to which 'the trafpc was consigned.
The tSperator with whom the traffic originated received a small percentage of the rate charged for the freight, as did the pool through which the traffic was passed.
The meeting decided that, before coming to a decision, the Association should seek information from existing pools as to experience in their operation. Consideration of the subject was, therefore, adjourned_