No Need for • 25-mile Limit
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"CRAFTSMANSHIP is as essential in transport as in any other industry. There must be the will to work: under the present regime, the Transport Act takes away that will. The country is highly industrialized and is fighting a constant battle against economic circumstances and the ever-present threat of war. Mounting costs and charges, losses and strikes are not in the public interest."
Mr. H. Herringshaw made these statements when he addressed the Birmingham Horse and Motor Owners' Association last week. He added: " There is no need for a 25-mile limit on economic grounds. Given more freedom, the private haulier will be able to do his own job and help with the mucky coal jobs which the R.H.E. cannot do in a crisis." Small transport contractors, he added, were being used as stopgaps to cover the ineptitude and failure of the Road Haulage Executive.
Conn. L. Seymour said that the
Government., whichin the manufacturing world-at it would not tolerate monopolies. was creating the biggest monopoly Britain ever had, Nationalization was good if it could produce a better. service. but this had not come to pass.,