"Railwayman" and Records Haulier Interviewed
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LAST week we published exclusively a statement by Mr. A. Fallon, at a meeting of the Road Haulage Association, to the effect that he understood that a haulier's records had been examined by a man who used a notebook bearing the initial letters of a railway company's title. Our Plymouth correspondent has now interviewed Mr. G. C. Covington, of Plymouth, the haulier concerned.
He stated that his log was quite in order, except in the case of a journey to London, in recording which a mistake had been made. The official, who did not initial the haulier's records cr otherwise indicate that they had been examined, remarked that it was not likely that Mr. Covington would hear any more of the matter. As the stranger closed his own notebook, both Mr. Covington and an assistant saw the letters "GAV.R." on a printed label on the cover. Neither, however, questioned the man's credentials. The man handed Mr. Covington a copy of the Road and Rail Traffic Act and mentioned that he had been examining drivers' records all the way down from London.
Subsequently, Mr. Covington referred the matter to Mr. W. Baker, a member of the committee of the Plymouth section of the R.H.A., who placed it before a committee. As a result, printed leaflets have been issued warning hauliers not to show their records to unauthorized persons.
Mr. Covington felt convinced that the man was a railway representative,