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HIRE "PIRATES" ATTACKED
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DART-TIME operators who are 1 abstracting the regular Operakirs. week-end private-hire business are . attacked in a letter sent by Messrs. M. Charlton and Sons, of Hexham, to the Northern Road Transport Owners' Association.
It is alleged that part-time operators are taking much of the week-end traffic by offering reduced rates, and the legitimate operator who relies on this business to make good losses on regular routes cannot compete. Two or three small bus owners in Northumberland are said to have had to surrender their licences for certain uneconomic regular services because their mainstay—weekend and private-hire work—no longer existed.
The newcomer who buys one or two coaches and employs men who already have regular work elsewhere, was cited as presenting the greatest danger. His staff worked five days in other industries and spent the other two days of the week driving coaches.