A.R.O.'s Part in Raising Municipal Haulage Rates
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h OVES in various directions to IVIobtain improvement in haulage rates in Yorkshire were referred to by Mr. W. J. Lowe, secretary of the Yorkshire Area of A.R.O., at the Leeds Sub-Area's annual meeting, last Sr eek.
At Sheffield, he said, the corporation had agreed to certain haulage rates, and so had the L.M.S. Railway Co.— better rates than ever before. It was hoped that A.R.O. negotiations now in progress with Barnsley Corporation would have similarly successful results, for, apart from the direct benefit to hauliers doing work for the municipality, such an agreement would serve as a lever to lift rates for haulage work given out lay other transport users in Ike locality.
After remarking that they would shortly ask Leeds Corporation ior better haulage rates, Mr. Lowe declared that where they could not obtain satisfaction from local authorities in the matter of rates they would, if necessary, take their grievance to Parliament.
In Doncaster, he stated, the A.R.O. and the C.M.U.A. were working together on a joint committee, which was now dealing with rates for the road haulage of sand and gravel. Rates for this traffic in the Doncaster district had given cause for much dissatisfaction among a number of haulage contractors.
Another phase of rates activity in the area, said Mr. Lowe, had been the smashing of the ramp whereby,
through the sub-letting of contracts for the hire of vehicles for use by the military, people not even in the roadtransport industry had been making big profits by paying operators 20s. or 90s. a day for the hire of a lorry, in respect of which they themselves drew a hiring fee of £2 10s. or 23 a day from the military. Arrangements had been made whereby any further hired lorries required by the military in the area must be hired through the Transport Commissioner for the North-eastern Region.
A.R.O. had also been concerned in the organization of sugar-beet transport in the Selby district, and roadtransport operators working under the scheme were obtaining better rates than in the past.