"I Shall Investigate Rates "—Mr. Hanlon
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14AULIERS operating on opencast coal I I sites must be paid the proper rate for their work, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, Northern Licensing Authority, ruled !ast week. He said it was against the national and public interests for hauliers to be paid low rates, resulting in poor maintenance of their vehicles. But too many operators were prepared to take any rate that was going.
Mr. Hanlon was hearing an application by T. Wright and Sons, Benwell Village, Newcastle upon Tyne, who wanted a B licence renewed. Asked about prohibition notices issued against the concern's vehicles, Mr. Robert Wright, a partner, said maintenance was difficult because of site conditions.
" Vehicles are bulldozed and shoved up," he declared. No matter what body repairs were done, in the end it was "left to God and good neighbours."
Before granting the application, Mr. Hanlon said he was prepared to take up any rate difficulties which were brought to his notice. A private haulier or the Road Haulage Association could write to him and he would investigate low rates.
Mr. T. H. Campbell Wardlaw, for Mr. Wright, pointed out that a licence could be revoked if the holder took unfair advantage of a competitor through cutting rates to an uneconomic level.
PHYSICIAN ATTACKS OILERS
THE Clean Air Act would be useless unless "the thousands of diesel motors which block the highways were prevented from belching their vile and evil-smelling filmes into people's nostrils," said Sir Walter Fergusson 'Hannay, an eminent physician, in Slough on Tuesday. Fumes from oil engines, he said, were a known cause of chronic bronchitis.
SUPER COMET ORDERS
nRDERS valued at well over £500,000
have been placed with Leyland Motors, Ltd., for the new Super Comet range of 14-ton gross four-wheelers. The largest home orders have been placed by Tozer's Transport. Ltd. (42); National Benzoic Co., Ltd.. 120); and Russell of • Bathgate (14).
FEWER BUS PASSENGERS FILMING the first nine months of this LI year, Coras lompair Eireann carried gm, fewer bus passengers than in the corresponding period of 1957. In September alone there was a drop of 1,414,000 on all routes, with the bulk of the loss falling on Dublin's city and suburban services.