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GOVERNMENT statisti released this week reve trends in road transpc operation over the last years. They list, in a 196-pa document, items ranging frc totals of every category vehicle down to every mot( way junction in the country Last year, 18,070,0 vehicles (including 1,730,0 goods vehicles and 114,0 buses and trams) we licensed, compared 14,805,000 (including 1,607,C goods and 102,000 buses a trams) in 1968.
Of 1,422,000 tonnes freight moved by road in 19' 771m tonnes went by ro hauliers while 650m tonn went by own account opei tors.
By far the largest sector this was freight moved for d tances of up to 25km, of whi 623m tonnes was divided ir 320m tonnes by hauliers a 303m tonnes by own accoun Small hauliers continue dominate the industry, wi 180,700 0-licences being al cated to fleets of up to fi vehicles, out of a total 480,600 holders. One-vehi( operators totalled 69,7( while there were only 43,5 operators of 200 or ma vehicles.
On the bus and coach si( 7,505m passenger journe were undertaken in 19", compared to 10,616m in 196'.
National Bus suffered one the biggest drops, its tot dropping from 3,056m 1,858m, while Scottish B Group dropped from 612m 358m. On the other har private operators increas their carryings from 564m 1967 to 746m in 1977.
Some operators increas their overall seating capacit over the same period, Lond Transport, for instanc offering 393,000 seats in 15, compared to 357,000 in 191