YEAR'S RATIONING? r- I PERATORS were last Friday
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warned by Mr. Gerald Nabarro, M.P., to plan for the possibility of fuel rationing continuing for a year.
An R.H.A. member carrying agricultural produce, and doing essential work for the Ministry of Supply and the U.S. Army Air Force, had been granted only 35 per cent. and an appeal was being lodged. An appeal was also being made against the supplementary issue of only 450 units to a haulier collecting milk from farms. He had applied for 550 units. His basic allowance was not known.
A. E. Booty (Transport), Ltd., Oxford, have been granted about two-thirds of their normal fuel consumption. They are appealing for a further allowance because their 15 vehicles are engaged on either export deliveries for the British Motor Corporation or the delivery of foodstuffs.
Another Oxford company, H. Tuckwell and Sons, Ltd., have had to fay off 15 of their 30 vehicles.
'Following the grant of "substantial concessions" by the Regional Transport Commissioner, a deputation of Derbyshire hauliers arid representatives of the Transport and General Workers' Union, last week, cancelled a visit they were to have made to him to protest against•allocations of supplementary fuel.
W. F. and F. Coxon, Ltd., hauliers, North Thoresby, have receiv'ed 48.6 per cent. of their normal consumption. They have already stood off four men anti more will have to be placed on short time.
EASTERN: R.H.A, members are complaining that C-licence fleets are being given better supplementary allowances than those on A or B licences. despite assurances to the contrary by the authorities. An example was given of an A-, Band C-licence holder who had received a better allowance for his C-licence vehicles than for the others.
Similarly, hauliers carrying bricks are receiving only 30 per cent. of their supplementary applications, whilst C-Feence fleets operating at the same brickworks are known to be enjoying 75 per cent.
The small hauliers, who are numerous in the area, are not receiving sufficient supplementary allowance despite the agricultural traffics they carry. •
WESTERN: Appeals by operators had received a fair hearing, reported the local R.H.A. secretary, Hauliers generally had been told their total allocation for the remainder of the current period.
LONDON AND HOME COUNTIES: Whilst the authorities recognized the need for operators to be informed as to their total allocations as SOCIECEIS possible, many hauliers in the Metropolitan and South Eastern Area of the R.H.A. were still awaiting this information on Monday, and especially in the south-eastern section. It was thought that the original fuelconsumption schedule used by the Ministry in checking supplementary applications had been too optimistic.
SOUTHERN COUNTIES: An absence of complaints suggested that the position generally had improved.
SOUTH WALES: After a meeting with the Ministry of Transport on Monday, Mr. L.-P. Owens. local secretary of the R.H.A., reported that all members should know by Wednesday or Thursday of this week their total allocation for the remainder of the period. The Ministry had recently been engaged on a second, lessstringent, examination of supplementary applications, and a figure of 60 per cent. allowance would be a fair assessment. Hauliers delivering miners' house coal had teeeived 80 per cent.