Rail Guarantee in Haulage ?
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A" SURPRISE " proposal among the Government's denationalization plans may guarantee the railways -a
• proportion of the more lucrative traffics. According to the "News Chronicle," this is to prevent road services, nationalized or private, from " skimming off the Cream."
It is further stated' that the more profitable traffics will be diverted to the railways chiefly by the control of carriers' licences. In those areas where it is considered that existing road services and the railways are already adequate to ,cleal with available traffic " it fairly shared," no-'new licences will be granted. •
The Cabinet is expected shortly to consider the report of a group of Ministers, headedby Lord Leathers, Minister for the .Co-ordination of Transport, Fuel and Power, on measures to be made applicable to transport.
According to the "Daily Telegraph" on Tuesday, the Government is bringing forward the Bill' for the return of the steel industry to private ownership. so that action to extend free enterprise in road haulage may be taken in the present session of Parliament. Some Conservative Members of Parliament contend that the freeing of road haulage is more Urgent than that of the steel industry.
PICKFORDS "SLACK, CARELESS AND LAZY," SAYS JUDGE
" QLACK, careless and lazy" was ■ Jhow Judge Richardson described the manner • in which the Pickfords concern had conducted its business when Mr. David Thorns; Sheriff Hill, Gateshead, recently claimed at a Newcastle-on-Tyne court the return from Pickfords of furniture which had been withheld because of a dispute over a bill.
The claimant said that an estimate of £23 had been made for a removal from Dundee. This amount had been paid, but about 40 items of furniture had not been delivered because they had not been included inn the estimate.
The judge ordered the furnitureto be handed over within 14 days 'and said that there had obviously been a misunderstanding when the estimate was given. .The case showed about as incompetent a way of doing business as was possible, he added.
MONTREUX RALLY AGAIN REGULATIONS have now been pub
fished of the fourth International Coach Rally of Montreux, which is to take place on May . 24-25. British vehicles have played a notable part in this rally on earlier occasions, and, as previously, the event is divided into two sections, one for, Swiss competitors and one for foreign operators. Apart from the Concours d'Elegance, the rally includes a road section and performance tests. There are prizes for passengers and competitors.
LILA. CONFERENCE DATE
THE Road Haulage Association is to hold its next annual conference' at Blackpool Vont October 14-17.