BRS wants 20pc rise
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BRITISH Road Services has applied to the Prices Commission to raise its rates by 20 per cent — despite not knowing the outcome of current wages negotiations.
The news came as the company announced that it had made a profit for the third consecutive year. The trading profit for 1978 was £8.8m compared with £6.8m in the previous year but the 1978 net profit was £2.4m.
BRS blames the need to raise its rates on inflation, including the fuel price rise announced this week, and its need to maintain profits at a high enough level to replace capital equipment and vehicles. BRS says it needs to make a net profit of at least £2.5m.
During the year the company absorbed Bridges Transport, W. Cooper and Sons (Carriers), H. S. Morgan Transport (Southampton), Watsons Carriers and N. Francis which, it says, has strengthened the distribution service.
THE DEPARTMENT of Transport will soon publish a report suggesting that neither mud flaps nor improved mud guarding is the answer to lorry spray.
This was stated in the House of Commons by John Horam Under Secretary for Transport who said that research had not so far established effective means for containing the spray thrown up by fast moving heavy vehicles.