Start of Rates Stabilization
Page 38
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
VORKSHIRE members of A.R.O. I are now being consulted at the meetings of the numerous sub-areas, as to their views on the stabilization cf haulage rates. By this means, the area officials and committee are seeking a mandate concerning the policy which they shall follow in this matter.
Mr. Robert Barr, chairman of the Yorkshire Area, dealt with the subject at a meeting of the Selby sub-area, last week, and emphasized the point that it is desirable that hauliers should themselves stabilize haulage rates, rather than have rates-control machinery forced upon them by legislation. The meeting was in agreement that action to secure stabilization of rates was necessary, but some speakers complained with bitterness that they were suffering not so much from rate-cutting among hauliers as from railway ratecutting.
Mr. Barr pointed out that when hauliers themselves had agreed on schedules of stabilized rates, they would be in a position to approach the railways, and possibly the Minister of Transport, with a view to coming eo some agreement on road and rail rates.
Support for the Yorkshire employers' scheme of wages and conditions wa expressed unanimously.