Freight Brokers Want Fair Deal, Too
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AN open meeting of A.R.O, freight brokers was held at Glasgow, last week_ Practically every concern engaged in this section of the roadtransport industry in Scotland was represented. The chairman, Mr. Strang, of the Scottish Carriers' and Haulage Contractors' Association, stated that the question of sub-contracting was of interest, not only to freight brokers, but to practically every haulage contractor throughout the country. He stated that approximately £20,000,000
worth of haulage was sub-contracted during 1937.
Mr. H. A. Palmer, honorary secretary of the Association's Freight Brokers' Section, referred to the value of clearing houses to the trader and to the whole of the road-transport industry in general.
With regard to a rates structure, Mr. Palmer suggested that, provided the railway companies were bound under penalty strictly to observe their own rates book, as printed, and that all " agreed charges" and " special quotations " were eliminated, the roadtransport industry would be prepared to accept this schedule as a basis for the compilation of a road rates structure.
Many questions were asked by an enthusiastic meeting and satisfactory replies were given. As a result a large number of additional concerns agreed to join the Association and a local committee was formed consisting of the following members : —Mr. MacPhee (Pitt and Scott, Ltd.), Mr. Fisher (Messrs. Fisher's Road Transport Service), Mr. McLellan (Messrs. Carey Davis and Thomas), Mr. Young (Young's Express Deliveries, Ltd.), Mr. Peters (Nathan Fine, Ltd.), Mr. West (Ex-Army Transport, Ltd.); also Messrs. Gray, Wright, Woodside, Cawthome.
Mr. Palmer requested the committee to (I) consider the draft terms of national sub-contracting, and to forward ifs views thereon to the main committee in London; (2) educate the trader into using the commercial organization of the road-transport industry, whereby he could dispatch his goods to diverse points throughout the country by road, using one organization only; (3) co-operate with the hauliers.