C-Licensees Not Privileged
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"wE do not regard ourselves as a privileged section of road Users; but, as manufacturers, Wholesalers or retailers distributing our goods in the busy, congested streets of cities and towns, we often wish there was a sharper appreciation of the task we have to do."
-This was stated by Mr. R. E. G. Brown, on behalf of a panel of the Traders' Road Transport Association. formed to combat bans on the loading and unloading of goods vehicles, when he addressed members of the Kent Area at Canterbury on Wednesday.
He mentioned the "restrictive mentality " which marked the outlook of many local authorities. Bans on goods vehicles resulted in main streets becoming mere extensions of arterial roads. People who lived in a town were held to have less priority than a driver passing, through.