A Practical Step to Improve Rates
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IT is not overstating the case to say that The Commercial Motor has done more than any other road-transport journal to focus attention upon the need for an early improvement in the level of haulage rates. It has given every encouragement to schemes for the voluntary stabilization of rates and, with.a view to creating discussion and sounding the opinions of the industry, has suggested means for placing road transport on an economic basis.
The Commercial Motor has now taken a further important step in the direction of the stabilization of rates by dispatching its costs expert, " S.T.R.," on a. national lecture tour, with the object of educating hauliers in the accurate assessment of costs. We have always believed that the best method of improving the economic status of the industry is by an educational process, and already the few addresses delivered by " S.T.R." to members of local associations have had beneficial results. If the advice given by him be followed, there will, for instance, next year be a marked improvement in beet-haulage rates in Lincolnshire.
" S.T.R." is at the disposal of the associations, to give lectures at their meetings on the subject of operating costs and their proper use in assessing rates and fares. His tour will ably back up the beneficial influence of our much-appreciated Tables of Operating Costs, a new and improved edition of which was distributed free of charge with last week's issue of this paper; whilst further copies are available at a small cost.