No Rates Rigidity'
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"10 not apply fixed, published transport rates as a general rule: reserve them s a "big stick " with which to beat cuthroat competition or, conversely, lomination by monopoly interests. That, defly, is the line taken by an indeendent international working party of Diversity lecturers who, at the request ,f the E.E.C. Commission, have been joking at proposals for forked rates for oods transport.
The party feel that an upper rates limit hould be fixed only where a carrier is busing a dominant position to force up rices, or a lower limit only where ;tithroat competition is deleteriously affectig the transport industry.
On infrastructure costs, the working roup thinks straight tolls should be mployed in preference to computing 3tal " track" costs and then sharing 'tem out between users.