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'Haulage needs ignored'
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WHERE CAN THE LORRIES GO?
VEHICLES of road hauliers carry more than twice as much traffic as the railways but it was invariably the railways and not road transport operators who were represented on planning committees such as the new Transport Co-ordinating Council which the Minister of Transport had set up in London. This was one of the several complaints against officialdom made by Mr. Eric Taylor, area chairman, at the annual banquet of the Metropolitan and South Eastern Area of the Road Haulage Association, in London on Monday.
It was unfair, he added, that property disposed of by the railways should be used for purposes other than transport when road transport contractors were simultaneously being dispossessed of their premises through compulsory purchase orders. Hauliers' vehicles were condemned because they took up space but it appeared to be nobody's responsibility to find room for them.