C-licence Vehicles Justify Themselves
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THE industrial traffic administrator had learned by tiresome experience what transport delays could mean to a progressive concern, with the result that there had recently been a growing tendency to acquire and operate ancillary fleets, contended Mr. A. LaWe,s Coles, F.Inst.T.A. He questioned whether to operate such a service was cheaper than to engage a haulier, but for the industrialist the C-licence vehicle was the best means for getting what was wanted where it was needed at the time it was required. In a large-scale organization, the industrial traffic manager fitted into the management scheme on a status equal to that of the production manager, the sales manager and the chief buyer. In many concerns with large labour forces the transport manager now had reSponSibility For. planning and Operating workers' travel services. Mr. G. Young commented that high profits in industry during and after the war formed the real reason why C-licence fleets had grown so enormously. Answering • other members, Mr. Lawes Coles agreed that hauliers did good work, but he still felt they could not do jobs quite so closely to the users' satisfaction as the latter's own vehicles.