Unity and Rates Stabilization
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AT was probably the largest
assembly of hauliers ever held in the Selby district gathered at a combined recruiting and business meeting organized, last week, under the auspices of A.R.O.
Mr. J. A. M. Bright, managing director of A. J. Fryer, Ltd., Selby, who presided, linked up the question of membership with that of haulage rates stabilization. Operators, he said, must themselves produce a solution of the problem of stabilizing haulage rates, and membership of A.R.O. was a means by which operators could help to bring about a far better state of affairs in this direction.
He also spoke of the threat to hauliers which lay in the railway companies' increasing number of applica
tions for additional road vehicles, and criticized the prosecution of employers because their drivers had, contrary to instructions, failed to keep records.
Mr. F. G. Bibbings, secretary of the Yorkshire Area of A.R.O., said that he had read with alarm the constant references by Sir Cyril Hurcomb, Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Mansport, to what was described as " the division of function " between road and rail transport. Ideas which Sir Cyril voiced to-day might be put into operation to-morrow by the Minister, and, reading between the lines, it seemed to him (the speaker) that the Ministry's conception of "the division of function " was to continue the official policy of " strait-jacketing " road operators.