Meat-delivery Complaints : Second-men Called For
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SQ0 as to expedite deliveries of meat, was suggested, at last week's meeting of the Liverpool Retail Meat Buying Committee, that second-men should be employed to assist drivers of vehicles of a capacity of 4 tons and over.
Replying to the allegation that it took five to six hours to clear a wagon load, the representative of a meattransport firm declared:— "Any man who took six hours to lighten one of our lorries would be sacked." Two men were employed on some vehicles—boxed vans, in which the meat was liable to be knocked about, but not on the side-loading lorries. Even if it was desirable to employ a second-man on every vehicle, it would be almost impossible to get the men needed.
One butcher made the surprising assertion that, in some eases, drivers were refusing to unload consignments of meat without assistance at the retail shops, unless they received an allowance.
The area meat agent promised to take up the points raised with the official in charge of transport,