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Hauliers' Big Share in Traffic uAULIERS carried well over a quarter

5th August 1960, Page 40
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of the total goods traffic handled in this country by all forms of transport. Mr. F. R. Lyon, public relations officer of the Road Haulage Association, told Stroud Rotary Club on Wednesday. The future prosperity of the country depended not only on the availability of the best vehicles, but on the existence of operators who could put them to the best possible

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The Ministry of Transport survey of goods traffic carried in 1958 showed that 51,000m. ton-miles were covered by road, rail, inland waterways and coastal shipping. Of this total. 23.000m. tonmiles were attributed to road transport and 1.8.000m. to rail. Hauliep were responsible for about 14.000m. ton-miles.

A railway wagon with a capacity of about 15 tons averaged only 18,000 tonmiles a year, whereas in 1958 road haulage vehicles with a capacity of 7 tons or more averaged 150.000, ton-miles each.


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