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" T " PLATES AND TIMBER TRAILERS.
At a recent meeting of the Federated Horne Grown Timber Merchants Association it was stated that, as a result of representations, the Minister of Transport bad agreed to amend the regulations exempting trailers, specially *constructed for the carriage of round timber, from the regulation requiring the fixing of 'T" plates, so as to make clear that the exemption also applies when the trailer is travelling empty.
"Fight the Common Enemy."
Mr_ J. L. Kinder, speaking on the question of rates at a meeting of the Brighton Sub-area of A,R.O., last week, advised operators to stop fighting each other, and to fight the common enemy of uneconomic conditions. Mr. D. Richardson, chairman of the Southeastern Area, and a member of the National Council, speaking on the same question, urged operators to stop undercutting.
A Result of the Crisis.
Evidence of the growing tendency towards co-ordination of road-transport organizations is the formation of the National Emergency Co-ordination Committee, as notified to the Minister of Transport, last week. The bodies concerned are the A.R.O., the C.M.U.A. and the National Road Transport Employers' Federation, Information as to the permanency of the Committee is not at present available, but it is understood that it will, at least, continue to function for some weeks.
Association Urges Support for Road. transport Classes.
During the winter months road-transport classes are being held under the auspices of the Liverpool School of Commerce. The Liverpool division of the C.M.U.A., in an advice to members, calls attention to this development and urges that this new facility should be brought to the notice of staffs. The curriculum is most comprehensive.
Success of B.S.A.T.A.
The half-yearly general meeting of the Ballast, Sand and Allied Trades
Association was held last week. In opening the meeting, the chairman, Mr. A. J. Arnold, said that it was satisfactory to record that there were more members in the Association at the end of June than at any other time in its life. He mentioned that the draft con siltation of the National Ballast and Sand Federation had been prepared by the Association's solicitors, and had been considered by a special committee. It would be placed before members of the Association at the earliest possible moment.
Mr. R. W. Sewill, director and secretary,of A.R.O., gave an address on the Road Haulage Wages Act, 1938.
n14 To Represent A.R.O. on Leeds Committee.
To represent road transport . on the Industrial Development Committee (a body sponsored by the Leeds Chamber of Commerce to aid-the city's welfare), Mr. A. H. Butterwick has been elected from the Yorkshire Area of A.R.O.
KNOW THE ANSWERS—ABOUT ROADS!.
What he described as " priming " for members of the industry, to help them to counter attacks on road transport and the trade, was provided by Mr. C. Boyd Bowman, of the B.R.F., in an address which he gave, last week, to the Leeds Centre (Yorkshire Division) of the I.M.T.
It was important, he said, that members of the motor trade should be conversant with the arguments for drastic reforms in oar road system, so that they could reply to people who attacked road transport.
Meat Traders on Wages Act.
Speaking at a meeting of the East Midland Council of the Meat Traders Federation, at Biggleswade recently. Mr. F. J. Toop, referring to the Road Haulage Wages Act, commented that the vexed question of C licences ought to have been left out of the Act altogether, TheFederation contended that the Act should not be applied to meat traders because they were running vans for such a short time, Many thousands of distributors up and down the country. were placed in the same position as the butchers.
A Federation resolution on the subject had been put before Mr. Ernest Brown, who, in a written reply, suggested that they need have no fears. The machinery was provided, but he doubted whether it would be put into operation. If that was so, said Mr. Toop, they could safely rest in their beds, but their experience was that where machinery was introduced it was used.