Another Demand for Transport Debate
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QUPPORT for the demand made by " The Commercial Motor," on October 7, for an early Parliamentary debate on transport, with particular reference to the compulsory acquisition of haulage businesses, was forthcoming at a meeting held last week by the North Eastern Area of the National Conference of Road Transport Clearing Houses.
A resolution urging that immediate steps be taken in this direction by the Conference and the Road Haulage Association was adopted.
Many complaints made by "The Commercial Motor" regarding the Road Haulage Executive's failure to honour agreements by local valuers, delays in payment, and discrimination in favour of operators whose businesses were voluntarily taken over, were voiced by Mr. Harold Firth, chairman of the area.
HANDS OFF TRADERS' TRANSPORT
SPEAKING at the annual dinner and dance of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers in London on Monday, Col. Arthur Jerrett, president of the Traders' Road Transport Association, questioned the wisdom of the current attitude 'towards transport and
its reorientation. The user, he said, was the natural source of supply of transport, and he hoped that the stage was not being reached at which it would be assumed that it was right and proper for traders to seek outside their own organizations for transport.
He spoke of an " affinity " between the I.R,T.E. and the T.R.T.A., both of which were essential to the road transport industry, whether nationalized or not. Col. Jerrett described the success of the 1.R.T.E. as "phenomenal."
Pointing out that because of the demands of export trade, British operators would not obtain the vehicles that they had hoped for, he said that the maintenance engineers must use every ingenuity to keep old vehicles going.
Mr. G. Mackenzie Junner, president of the Institute, presided. Amongst those present were Mr. George Cardwell, chairman of the Road Passenger Executive, and Mr. B. G. Turner, national chairman of the Road Haulage Association.
RADIO VANS FOR ICE-CREAM
TWO-WAYradio communication has been extended to ice-cream transport. T. Wail and Sons, Ltd., has installed Pye transmitter-receiver equipment in a Bedford 30-cwt and a Fordson 25-cwt. van, at present operating experimentally in the New Forest area and on the Isle of Wight.
Operators are controlled from a main transmitter-receiver at the headquarters depot in Southampton. In the future, when there are no Limitations of supply, should a fete, race-meeting, sudden heat-wave or other emergency cause a run on ice-cream stocks, vans with extra supplies may be directed to the area at short notice.