Removers Overhaul Rate Scale
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1-1. A NEW scale of recommended
charges, to cover recent increases in wages and other costs, has been drawn up by the National Association of Furniture Warehousemen and Removers. This procedure has been adopted in preference to recommending a percentage advance on existing charges.
The revision of the scale of fair charges will be one of the subjects to be discussed at the Association's annual conference at Bournemouth in May.
In the east of Scotland,. members of the Association have increased their charges as from March 1. The agreed hourly charges for local removals arc as follows:—Van and driver, 15s. 6d.". van, driver and one man, El Is.; van, driver and two men, Ll 6s. 6d.; van, driver and three men, 12s.
Many of the removers in that part of Scotland do a good deal of hire work, and the following tariff for the hiring of vehicles and trailers has been agreed:-1 ton, I Is. 6d. an hour or Is. 4d. per mile; 2-3 tons, 12s. an hour or Is. 4d. a mile; 5 tons, 15s. an hour or Is. 6d. a mile. An additional 5s. an hour is chargeable when a porter is employed as well as a driver.
The Association's conference on May 16-17 will be followed by the annual conference of the British Association of Overseas Furniture Removers on May 18, and of the Federation of International Furniture Removers on May 19, all at Bournemouth. Business sessions at the N.A.F.W.R.'s conference will be held on May 17.
C-LICENSEES' FUTURE IN DOUBT THE future of C-licence holders was I uncertain, said Mr. S. C. Bond, president of the Traders' Road Transport Association, at the annual dinner of the Western Division at Bristol last week.
Speaking of various deputations sent, and meetings called, in an effort to reduce the fuel tax and purchase tax, he said that "absolutely nothing had been achieved."
The raising of the speed limit on heavy commercial vehicles was long overdue.
Mr. T. D. Corpe said that a threat to the freedom of C-licence holders was the possible renationalization of road transport after the next General Election.
WHITEHALL TO STAGGER?
I N an attempt to ease traffic congestion at peak periods, Government departments, the London County Council and Middlesex County Council hope to change the working hours of about a quarter of the 20.000 office workers in Whitehall. This was announced last week after a meeting at which the London Transport Users' Consultative Committee discussed their "ideal plan" for staggering hours in the area.