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speaking at the dinner of the Midland branch of the Contractors' Mechanical Plant Engineers' Association at Sutton Coldfield, Mr. Butt said that R.H.A. members, with all types of vehicles, handled a considerable proportion of the total tonnage of building and construction materials and plant and machinery that was moved by road. "We feel that firms with heavy responsibilities, such as those which must fall on many of your members, must be only too pleased to transfer their transport headaches to someone else," Mr. Butt said that when some large engineering project was in train there was an inevitable demand for road transport —particularly tippers. "I must say that in the past some contracting and civil engineering firms appear not to have been too careful in their choice of operator. Perhaps the need for getting hold of a large number of vehicles at short notice makes a contractor less fastidious, or maybe the rates which he has decided he will pay, particularly for excavated materials, are so low that the transport operator who looks after his vehicles and drivers would not do the work."
The use of tippers at uneconomic rates Fad done much to lower the prestige of the road haulage industry in the eyes of the public, said Mr. Butt.