Yorkshire Haulier Employs Women to Protect Loads
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BECAUSE of the sluirtag# of men and youths; a Dewsbury haulage concern it employing women as wagon"watchers on vehicles delivering in London. This step has been taken following a recent London robbery in which cloth valued at about 41,000 was stolen. The cloth, comprising nearly 50 parcels, was being distributed from the company's London depot to various consignees by an unaccompanied driver with a 6-ton lorry.
At Dalston he left the vehicle while he went into a warehouse to notify: a delivery, and during his absence it was driven away.' Within five minutes the police were notified, but the. vehicle was Not traced until it was discovered abandoned and loadless at Bow, about three miles away, later in the afternoon. The robbery was evidently -carried out by thieves with a kcnowledge of Oil engines and with a depot where the packages could be quickly hidden Mr. T. Jackson, of Bowyer. and Jackson, Ltd., the haulier concerned, said to our Yorkshire correspondel t: " After this experience we have made it a ride never to send unaccompanied drivers on deliveries in London. We cannot always send an extra man, youths are also very difficult to find for the job, so we a.e employing women."
Mr. Jackson, who is hon. stcretary of the Heavy Woollen District Trrisport Association, suggested it would be a good thing if some scheme could be evolved whereby hauliers could contribute to a mutual fund for the provision of protection against pilferage, at any rate on those trunk roads where it is rife. " I would welcome a Government scheme pn those lines, to give us special police protection, or some other form of guard," he added.