SUB-CONTRACTORS' CHARTER.
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It was disclosed at the meeting of the haulage sectional board of A.R.O., last week, that definite progress has now been made' towards agreed terms for sub-contracting. it will be recollected that in the days of the late Mr. E. C. Marston, the clearing houses, in conjunction with the former Road Haulage Association's council, drew up a charter.
This is now being overhauled by a sulecoinmittee of the clearing-house section, and will then be referred to a joint committee consisting of hauliers and clearing-house representatives, with a view to final presentation to the national haulage sectional hoard at its next meeting.
A.R.O. Finance Scheme Spells Big Business.
In an interview, Mr. J. F. E. Pye, A.R.O. Metropolitan Area chairman, informed The Commercial Motor that £120,000 has already passed through the Association's Metropolitan Area office in connection with the finance scheme inaugurated last April. It is expected that the £250,000 mark will be reached by the end of the financial year, in March next.
Liverpool Legal Defence Scheme Extended, Details have been worked out by the Liverpool Cart and Motor Owners Association for an extension of the scheme for legal defence. The scope of the extended arrangement will. embrace offences under the Road Traffic Acts, Road and Rail Traffic Act, 19311,. Road Transport Lighting Act, and Regulations and Orders issued under them.
Subject to the consideration of any exceptional or special feature, it is intended also to include offences under any future Acts, Orders or Regulations. Members may obtain the services of a solicitor for legal advice and for the defence of summonses, provided that the case is capable of being contested. The cost of membership of the scheme is contingent on certain minimum support being forthcoming. Previsional arrangements have been made to retain the services of a specialist solicitor.
• A.R.O.'s New Offices.
On Monday next, December 13, A.R.O. will take over its new offices at 120, Pall Mall, London, SW-i.
A.R.O. Bolton Officers.
Mr. C. Hoclgkinson has been appointed chairman of .A.R.O. Bolton Sub-area, and Mr. T. McIntyre, 151, Long Lane, Breightmet, Bolton, secretary.
Next C.M.L.T.A. Conference in Birmingham.
Birmingham will be the venue of the next National Road Transport Conference to be held under the auspices of the C.M.U.A. It will .he the fifth, and will take place during the first week in October, 1938.
C.M.U.A. Dinner at Bournemouth. The first annual dinner of the Bournemouth and District Area of the C.M.U.A. will be held at the Hotel Empress, The Square, Bournemouth, on January 26. Tickets are 5s, each, and application should be made to the hon. secretary, Mr. George E. Edmonds, 21, Somerley Road, Winton, Bournemouth.
Careful Maintenance Cuts Costs.
Addressing members of the Liverpool branch of the Industrial Transport Association, last week, on " Service From the User's Point of View," Mr. S. Hollands said that, whilst the development of road transport since the war had been remarkable, the improvement of repair and maintenance facilities had been equally striking.
Stressing the importance of maintenance work, he declared that there was no doubt that undertakings which spent time and money on repairs and maintenance were operating their vehicles at a lower cost per mile. HAULIERS' VEHICLE SHORTAGE.
At meetings held last week, considerable time was devoted by both the haulage sectional, and the ancillary users'. sectional boards of A.R.0, to the subject of the T.A.C. report and, subsequently, conjointly by both boards to consider the position of licensees arising out of this report.
Discussion took place on the unfettered right of the C-licensee to employ his own vehicles. Some doubt was felt by the A-licence operators as to the possibility of maintaining any rates structure so long as this right remained.
It was stated as a tact by one large ancillary user that, at the present time, there was a shortage of A and B-licence transport and that C-licensees were, in consequence, compelled to provide their own vehicles. Arising from this, it was suggested that the A.R.O. area offices should act as information .bureaux for operators and traders, to supply information relative to work and vehicles available in the respective cases.
Others taking part in the discussion felt that, so long as C-licensee wages and conditions were not less favourable than those observed by A and B operators, there was no need to fear undue competition from this source, especially having regard to the ability of the A and B operators to carry return loads.
C.M.U.A. Licensing Bureau Justifying Itself.
By the establishment of its central licensing bureau, the C.M.U.A. has created an effective means for communicating With its members all over the country, who, through the divisional and area committees, may present their licensing problems.
Periodical bulletins are circulated in wliich notes are given,, not only of the principal licensing cases, but of effective points which can be used at meetings.
In addition, records and statistics are being collated by the bureau, which aims at supplying useful information when this is required for hearings of original applications or of variations. The bureau is also in a position to supm ply members with commercial intelligence.
Result of Yorkshire Safety Competition.
Cyclists should have riding licences, which could be endorsed or suspended for dangerous riding. This is one of the suggestions put forward by a Yorkshire commercial-vehicle driver, which have gained for him the first of three prizes offered by A.R.O. Yorkshire Area for road-safety ideas from employees of A.R.O. members ih the area..
The illumination of Belisha-beacon globes at night-time is also advocated by the first prize-winner, Mr. Erie Mann, a driver employed by Mr. E. Myers, of Shipley.
A first prize of V. and two second prizes of 10s, each have been awarded in the edmpetition. Mr.. A. H. Butterwick, A.M.Inst.T., chairman of the road transport section of .Leeds Chainher of Commerce, who suggested the competition, acted as judge.