Tankers Being Hired A movement of great interest to road
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operators was the big petrol companies' tendency to shed • their distribution responsibilities and sell through agents, who arranged transport arid to hire tankers rather than maintain their own fleets.
Bulk haulage was in its infancy in this country, and significant advances could he expected in the next few years. Vehicle design involved little difficulty, hut loading and discharging installations at terminals required thought and money.
Mr. Bice considered that the abolition of the 20 m.p.h. speed limit would stimulate the use of high-speed heavy articulated vehicles. He thought it probable that, in the future, all longdistance road transport would be by articulated vehicles, because of their high payload capacity for low capital cost.
Motorways would not benefit road transport as much as improvements to urban and suburban roads. A vast field for development lay in methods of combined road-rail handling of traffic, including the use of light, highcapacity containers.