'Will Road Transport Be Conscripted ?
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SPEAKING at a meeting held by the "..-"Scottish Commercial Motor Users' Association, at Glasgow, on Sunday last, Mr. A. Henderson, Regional Transport Commissioner, said that the restriction placed upon the issue of fuel at the moment was by no means as rigid as was originally intended.
The primary cause was the need for the transport of the country continuing as fluid as possible. It was found that the only way to ensure this was to free the hands of transport officers in the matter of the quantity of fuel they were able to release. Just how long this freedom would last nobody knew.
The first weeks of war had thrown an abnormal burden on the whole transport. system. That made it quite impossible to apply the same measure of restriction as it was hoped would ultimately be applied. Just when it would be necessary to tighten the screw he did not know.
Groups of carriers would have work together, and, if necessary, to d. tribute work without losing their pa ticular customers.
Although the transport service hi not been used yet for its main purpo —pooling and. broadening the unit. that was no reason why they shou not be prepared to do it. He ask. road,transport operators not to rela not to lose faith in the machin because he was convinced there won he a call upon it very soon.
They had to pool the transpc resources. 'Operators could reta their customers, although the wo might have to be performed in anoth operator's vehicles..
They had to make the voluntary 53 tern of transport a success. If they d not, then it had to be Government co trolled. Transport would have to conscripted. To a' great extent rested upon the industry itself.