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The Hauliers and Concrete Aggregate Merchants Alliance
Page 133
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+' prices ruling for the haulage of sand, gravel and building and road-making materials are so unsatisfactory as to make it impossible for those engaged in the industry to carry on their businesses at a profit. The time has come to get together and contrive some means for stemming the downward trend of prices, for stabilizing rates and ensuring for each a fair rate of pay for the conveyance of a fair and accurately measured load.
Another factor will present itself when the full effects of the Road Traffic Act are felt, restricting the types of vehicle to be used and the manner of their use.
Thus, in substance, did Mr. F. F. Fowler introduce the formal sets of rules and the objects and constitution of the newly formed Hauliers and Concrete Aggregate Merchants Alliance to a representative gathering of his fellow-hauliers at the Council Offices, Hounslow, last Wednesday afternoon. The first meeting of this body was fully dealt with in our issues dated April 14th and 21st, but the name has been modified.
The rules themselves embody provision for effective means for imposing restrictive conditions on the conduct of businesses of hauliers and sand and ballast merchants in the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, for the fixing of rates and for the control of prices of delivered materials. They provide for the protection of members 'of the Alliance aild for entering into arrangements for the use of recognized loading-line prates and/or special delivery tickets. The Alliance is to be registered as a trades union so that it may do all these and other things in a lawful manner.
Members shall be (a) persons, including an individual member of a firm or representative of a company, engaged in the business of hauling and merchanting sand, ballast and other building materials, who are not producers of washed concrete aggregate (full members), and (b) persons, etc. (as before), engaged in any other business (associate members).
The subscriptions and entrance fees are graded, from 10s. 6d. entrance fee and £1 is. subscription for the owner of not more than three vehicles, to £1 is. entrance fee and £3 3s. subscription for owners of not more than 12 machines. Above 12 and up to 50 the addition to the subscription is 2s. per vehicle ; after 50 the addition is 1s. per vehicle up to 150 vehicles, where the maximum subscription is reached.
After a practical discussion the rules, with slight amendment,were agreed, the Alliance was properly constituted, and the first general meeting immediately commenced. The provisional committee, reported on page 34; of our issue dated April 21st, was re-elected, and the meeting proceeded at once to a discussion of rates. ,Several schemes were mooted and debated. Then " S.T.R.," the operating-costs expert of The Commercial Motor, was aF:ked to give his views and, subsequently, on his offering his services, was invited to draw up a suggested schedule of rates for the haulage of sand and ballast under the conditions usually. present.