And this is the TUC view
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THE TUC'S OWN proposals on transport legislation are set out in a lengthy memorandum included in the General Council's Report, 1967. The Minister had asked for the TUC's views on road haulage licensing, the administrative framework of integration and upon trade union representation on the new statutory transport boards.
BRS, as part of a reconstituted British Transport Commission, should be responsible for long-distance public haulage. BRS should expand by selective acquisition and higher investment.
Distance limits
Holders of public carriers' licences should be restricted to distance limits unless authorized by the BTC for longer distances. Compensation should be paid to firms from whom licences were withheld.
BRS and railway collection and delivery services should be amalgamated as agreed by the parties and published in the BTC's 1950 policy statement.
The TUC reaffirmed the "need for a national transport authority".
This would have to assess overall needs means of transport was employed, revealing the traffic pattern to be followed: which would go by rail, and which would be most efficiently carried by the integrated authority.
Route patterns of traffic movements would be established in consultation with Licensing Authorities. No difficulty was foreseen in allowing the integrated authority "a powerful voice in certain aspects of licensing while other responsibilities rest with the Licensing Authorities".
Small and one-man hauliers were incompatible with efficiency: "LA's should progressively withdraw licences from operators with only a handful of vehicles where there is clear scope for rationalizetion".
The integrated authority should be generally responsible for large through transport movements, for inland clearance depots and co-ordinating through container transport.
Trade unions should play a full part not only in the selection of staff for the new transport authorities but also in devising and executing policies.