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SHORT HAULS
Larger not heavier
IF LORRIES were allowed to carry larger weights, their maximum size would not necessarily increase, but there might be fewer of them on the road, pointed out a Government spokesman last week.
Emphasising that she was not arguing for an increase in maximum weights, Lady Stedman told the Upper House that there was more than one angle to this question.
With larger weights the operation would be more economic, and the industry could perhaps more readily bear than it could now the costs of the other changes that the Transport Department would like to see regarding the reduction of noise and fumes.
Rationalised
Due to a rationalisation policy most of the work performed by the Perth depot of National Carriers Ltd. has been taken over by the Dundee depot. More than half the remaining staff at Perth — five drivers, four shedmen and a clerk — accepted redundancy.
The depot manager, John Scott, said they were now off the national network as carriers and would be concentrating on the warehousing and warehouse distribution side of the business. All other functions would now be carried out by the Dundee depot.
BAOD lives A LEADING figure in the troubled British Association of Owner Drivers says BAOD is not dead and that it will recover from its present setbacks.
Harry Boland of the North Humberside Owner Drivers' Association told CM: "The association has not fallen flat. It is still going."
Referring to the resignation of BAOD secretary Mike Wells after last month's annual general meeting, Mr Boland said: "The association doesn't rely' on one man. We are looking for a new secretary."