Ministry Takes Over Wool Traffic by Road
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ROAD transport of wool, on behalf of the Ministry of Supply's Wool Control, has been taken over by the Ministry of War Transport's Road Haulage Organization from the two pools of hauliers which have handled the traffic for nearly four years. The take-over also includes the pools' office in Dr'ake Street, Bradford, and the staff.
The pool for the long-distance road. haulage of wool, from the ports to the Yorkshire textile manufacturing area, was conducted by Yorkshire and Lancashire Hauliers, Ltd. The other pool, for short-distance _wool traffic within the West Riding, say between storage warehouse and textile factory, was run by another private company formed by pool members, West Riding Transport Pool, Ltd. • The change is one of control of operation rather than in the operation itself, in that operators who were carrying Control wool as pool members now receive allocations of such traffic from the M.O.W.T. Some of the largest pool members are now controlled undertakings, which under their contracts as such with the Ministry carry the wool on their own vehicles or pass the traffic to hired-vehicle operators in their unit.
The position of pool members who are not controlled undertakings is more complicated. Any vehicles which they have not hired to the Ministry they can use freely for the carriage of Control wool, but vehicles hired to the Ministry can be used only for such traffic on behalf of a controlled unit. The effect is that such an operator may not be carrying nearly' so much Control wool as formerly.
,It is understood that the Control is paying the same haulage rates to the M.O.W.T. as it paid to the pools, and that in the case of free vehicles the operator receives slightly more from the Ministry than he did from the pools.