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• With the advent of operators' licensing and new limits on drivers' hours, south-western farmers will no longer be able to have their vegetables collected by hauliers on a sort of gate-to-gate basis. But they are not, apparently, letting the grass grow under their feet in finding a solution.
Cornwall is the first area to be thinking of what to do in the future—and farmers are having discussions with RHA members on this point.
"In many cases, farmers will themselves bring in their produce to a suitable central point," Mr. Noel Wynn, RHA chairman, told the Devon and Cornwall area dinner in Plymouth last evening. This central point, he explained, would usually be the premises of an RHA member, so that full loads could be picked up without the driver fearing that he was likely to exceed the limits of his driving time.
Mr. Wynn welcomed this kind of development as it provided a clear example of the flexibility of road transport and initiative in meeting the changing pattern of customers' demand; it was an arrangement that showed the growing spirit of co-operation among hauliers all over the country.