Pressure for Higher Speed Limit Grows
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QI-TORTLY after the National Joint Industrial Council considered the question of increasing the speed limit on heavy goods vehicles from 20 m.p.h. to 30 m.p.h., the committee of trade and industry on • the raising of the heavy goods vehicle speed limit sent a resolution in favour of it to the
Minister of Transport. The committee called upon the Minister to make an Order raising the limit in the interests of national productivity.
The committee were, they said, convinced that "this would permit mutually satisfactory arrangements to be reached between employers and the unions on new operating schedules and any consequential financial benefits." ' The resolution was endorsed by representatives of the British Road Federation, Federation of British Industries, Mansion House Association on Transport, National Union of Manufacturers, Road Haulage Association, Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, Traders' Road Transport Association, and Traders' Traffic Conference.
The question of raising the speed limit was raised by the employers last week at a meeting of the N.J.I.C. when an application by the unions for an increase in pay and in night rates was submitted. As reported exclusively in The Commercial Motor last week, this question is now being considered by the council. Last week's meeting was amicable and the employers undertook to consider carefully the claims.
British Road Services are as anxious as hauliers to secure an increase in the speed limit and, if necessary, are, it is thought, willing to buy it from the unions by way of an advance in pay.