Some Offences Not Known to the Police
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THE suggestion that some central body of the industry might be set up in the district, in order to negotiate with Stoke-on-Trent Corporation so that haulage contracts might be apportioned without complaint, was made by Alderman J. A. Dale, at the A.R.O. North Staffs Sub-area dinner at Hanley last Saturday.
The Mayor of Newcastle, Alderman T. 0. Harper, J.P., referring to an occasion when he had ordered goods to be sent by passenger train, as they were required urgently, and other goods from the same concern to come by road transport, said that those sent by road were delivered the following morning, but those sent by train were not received until the following evening.
Mr. E. J. Shopland, Clerk to the West Midland Authority, touching on cases of overloading, said he had discovered that some operators carrying tiles were paid on a basis of one ton per 1,000, whereas elsewhere machinemade tiles were reckoned at 21 cwt. and hand-made tiles at 23 cwt. In the course of a reply, Mr. J. Male said that the A.R.O. had already taken up the matter with the manufacturers' associatien concerned,
Mr. F. L. Bunn, chief constable of Stoke-on-Trent, said that the number of laws and regulations affecting road users was not altogether a bad thing for the operator, because they were so numerous that the policeman could not possibly hope to learn them all himself, in consequence -of which many offences were necessarily overlooked. Road-transport drivers were improving in courtesy and their signalling was notably better than in years past, he added. Mr. G. F. Goodwin's appreciation of the Press was acknowledged by Mr. Taylor, of The Commercial Molor.