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Higher Haulage Rates for Industrial Coil

17th July 1942, Page 22
17th July 1942
Page 22
Page 22, 17th July 1942 — Higher Haulage Rates for Industrial Coil
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PrilF/Mines Department has approved I an increase of id. per ton lead mire' in road haulage charges for thp trafisport of industrial coal from collieries and loading depots in Yorkshire to consumers' works. This increase, to meet the rise in costs, brings the aggregate increase over the pre-war rates to lid. per lead mile. The rates, for hopperloaded bulk loads of not less than four tons, also apply td, house-coal traffic coming within that category, and, in each case, there is an additional charge of Is. 3d. per ton where the coal is not hopper-loaded.

The coal distributnr is authorized to *add to the selling price of his coal the appropriate road haulage charge according to the schedule, which was formulated before the war by Mr_ Harry Wood, of Huddersfield, on behalf of the Yorkshire Federation of -Coal Merchants' Associations and the North of England Coal Traders' Association, and approved by the Mines a20

Department and the Ministry of Transport. If a distributoremploys a haulier's vehicle for the traffic instead of his own, the haulier should be remunerated at the schedule rate.

Since the schedule* was established, the rates haVe been varied both upwards and downwards, according to variations in conditions affecting the costs of the road transport of coal.

The schedule is built up on principles similar fo those adopted by the Leeds Area Committee of the Hauliers' National Traffic Pool, of which Mr. Wood is chairman. There is a terminal charge of 6d, per ton, and flee progression rate,as now revised, is 41d. per ton lead. mile. Weightage additions begin at Is. 3d. per ton for the first lead mile, and scale down in stages of ld. at each lead mile until zero is reached; thereafter weighta.ge subtractions come into operation, beginning at Id. and. increasing in ld. stages every lead mile until is. 3d. is reached at 31 lead miles. From then on the progression rate is unweighted at-41d. per ton lead mile. oThe rates, exclusive of depot charges, have been built up to the nearest id.

The following are-the rates as now revised:—

Lend Beale. Lead Seale.

Miles. i d. Mies. s. d.


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