Hauliers Accused of Evading the Law
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%WHEN the House of Commons VI' discussed railway charges last week, Mr. Ernest Davies referred to "regrettable evasion" of the law by hauliers in connection with the use of C licences.'
" There are two very well-known ways in which there is evasion of the Transport Act, whereby goods are being carried by road by what 1 might call pirates,' " he said. "There is, for instance, the shipper of his own goods
owning a C licence without owning a vehicle. He can hire a vehicle from a contractor who operates .under the shipper's C licence."
Mr. Davies was here referring to the C-licence hiring margin, a straightforward arrangement provided for bv the 1.933 Act, but he 'went on to describe his second instance: "The haulier goes to a man who has a regular tonnage to ship and says: You get a C licenee--I can carry your goods In my vehicle.'
" He does not go only to one customer but to a large number, and as he proceeds along the road he will switch cme C-licence disc for another, according to the goods he happens to be carrying at that time."
Payment was made for the tonnage carried, plus an allowance for driver's wages to satisfy the provision that he should he employed by the licence holder.
Mr. Davies condemned this practice as illegal and called upon the Minister of Transport to make an investigation into the matter,