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Drivers Earn £15 Employer Gets £10
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ALTHOALTHOUGH his drivers earn about UGH a week, Norman Frank Upton, haulier, Alfreton, Derbys, pays himself only £10-18 for housekeeping and £2 pocket money. Upton put this to Alfreton magistrates, last week, when he asked for time to pay fines of £154 for using a vehicle without a carrier's licence.
Mr. C, S. Whitby, prosecuting, said Upton had been paid £225 for illegally carrying goods for a Sheffield company. Twice in the past five months he had been convicted of similar offences, and fines totalling £95 had been imposed.
In court, Upton said he had written three letters to the East Midland Licensing Authority without reply. He claimed that the Authority's office had also failed to return a log book.
After " hearing of Upton's costs, the clerk, Mr. C. Allsop, remarked: "You appear to be running very nearly at a loss. How are you living?"
Upton replied: "There isn't a lot of profit out of running a big lorry."
He was fined £7 on each of 22 summonses and allowed a month to pay.
R.H.A; PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN TAKING SHAPE
APPEALING for subscriptions to the advertising fund of the Road Haulage Association on Wednesday, Mr. R. N. Ingram, national chairman, said that the public relations campaign to counter Socialist policy was taking shape. He was addressing the Birmingham Sub-area.
Eminent , advertising consultants had been engaged. Anything published that wasregarded as detrimental to members' interests would be brought to the Association's notice for reply whenever necessary.
Mr. Ingram attacked the fuel tax, the purchase tax on commercial vehicles, and the provision of State funds to meet railway losses, In the fight against possible renationalization, he said, it was encouraging that an independent inquiry showed that proposals for State ownership attracted little enthusiasm from Labour Party members.
"PRIVATE MOTORISTS WILL GAIN MOST FROM MOTORWAY"
UIP to 75 per cent, of the benefits of the ‘../ London-Birmingham motorway will go to private motorists and not commercial vehicles. Although the future benefits of the motorway would be between four to eight times the capital cost, a good investment by normal standards, the optimism of the Minister of Transport that motorways, would pay for themselves hundreds of times over was hardly justified.
This has been stated by Dr. M. Beesley. of Birmingham University, in an article in the journal of the Birmingham and West Midlands Chambers of Commerce. He suggested that more should be spent on relieving urban congestion, as on existing routes between London and Birmingham traffic moved more quickly than was generally believed,