Five Problems for the Haulage Industry
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LIVE problems that will face the Road Haulage AsSociaI tion and their members when the Transport Bill has
been passed, were outlined by Mr. R. H. Farmer, a national iee-chairman, in Sheffield last week. He was speaking at the annual dinner of the Association's South Yorkshire Area.
Then. free hauliers would become responsible for the maintenance of transport services to trade and industry, and for the provision of new facilities. Mr. Farmer urged hauliers to take more interest in the activities of other members of the Association and to co-operate more closely with them in the interests of the user.
Thirdly, the R.H.A. would have to take into their ranks again the members who were lost through nationalization and seek to enrol the new entrants to the haulage industry.
Care would have to be taken in relations with the workers. "They must not feel that because of an Act of Parliament, they arc to be sold in the market," he said. They must he made to feel that their employment in the future would be even more pleasant than it had been in the past.
The fifth problem was the establishment of a new relationship with the railways.
DEMONSTRATIONS ON WELDING LIGHT ALLOYS
A SERIES of demonstrations on the
welding of aluminium alloys is to he held at various centres throughout the country by the Northern Aluminium ('o., ltd., Banbury. The shielded inertgas metal are and the argon tungsten arc methods will be described, and film shows on Aircomatic welding and the use of signs in Sigma welding will be given.
The following arrangements have been fixed for the demonstrations: March 25. Government Training t 'enure, Enfield Highway; April 1, SouthamptonTechnical College, St. Mary's Street, Southampton. Others will be given at provincial cities within the next few months. Invitations are being sent out by the company.
CIVIL ENGINEERS' APPEAL FAILS
THE Transport [Appeal] Tribunal has dismissed an appeal by Leonard Fairclough, Ltd., Chorley. Lanes, civil engineers, against the refusal of the North-Western Licensing Authority to grant a B licence for a low-loading
chicle.
The company, it was stated, already held a B licence for a low-loader, restricting its use.to carrying for hire or reward on empty outward or return journeys when it was chiefly being employed for the transport of the cornpany's own plant. A seecind low-loader had been bought and a similar licence was required, so that the high, cost of the vehicle could be offset. Mr. Philip
Curtis, for the appellants, said that they were not trying to " muscle in on haulage.
Mr. Herbert Hull, president, said that there was instifficient evidence of prospective customers being inconvenienced if there were not a second vehicle licensed.
Mr. D. L. McDonnell, representing the Special Traffics (Pickfords) Division of British Road Services, which responded to the appeal, was not called upon to speak.
BODYBUILDERS' DEPUTATION? IN the House of Commons, last week, 1 the Minister of Labour agreed to consider receiving a deputation from the National Union of Vehicle Builders to discuss new methods of construction which caused redundancy among vehicle builders, and the increasing tendency for manufacturers to export vehicles knocked-down for assembl) overseas.
STILL "IHE BIGGEST EXPORTER
BRITAIN was still the world's largest vehicle exporter, Mr. R. Gresham Cooke, director of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, told ment• hers of the Motor Agents' Association in Cardiff last week.
Over Von. vehicles. had been sent overseas since the end of the war, and the present rate of export was 30,000 vehicles a inonth—a little under half of production. Germany was exporting only 32 per cent, of output and France 20 per cent., he stated.
T.U.C.C. RE-APPOINTMENTS
.THE chairman of the London Trans • port Users' Consultative Committee, Mr. J. Fitzgerald, and 14 other members have been re-appointed by die Minister for another three years. Three further members have yet to he appointed.