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Ambitious Plan to Stabilize Rates

22nd May 1936, Page 40
22nd May 1936
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Sc.heme Devised for Yorkshire Area that Could be Used as a Basis for National Action

CTAI3ILIZRD haulage. rates, recomOmended by the operators themselves, should be enforced by the Licensing Authorities, suggested Mr. Joseph Keeling, chairman of the haulage committee of A.R.O. Leeds Sub-area, in detailing a rates-stabilization scheme which he has formulated, at a meeting of Leeds hauliers, last week. Adherence to the agreed rates should be a condition of hauliers' licences, he declared..

Rates stabilization, he remarked, could not be carried out successfully unless there was power of enforcement 'by the employers panels of the Area Conciliatioo Boards, by enforcement committees, or by the Licensing Authorities. He preferred enforcement by the Licensing Authorities, because he considered that this method' would be less expensive and much more effective.

How the Scheme Would Operate.

Setting forth his scheme as applicable to the Yorkshire Traffic Area, Mr. Keeling. said that his plan was to set up. an area rates committee of about 20 members, comprising representatives from each district, and, at the , same time to create rates sub-committees for each district. The function of each sub-committee would be to prepare a schedule of rates, to include charges on an hourly basis for purely local work, and rates on a ton-mileage basis for the carriage of goods from the district concerned to other places to which local hauliers usually ran their vehicles.

The district sub-committees' rates _ schedules would be put before the area rates committee for the purpose of coordination and incorporation in a Yorkshire stabilization scheme. The whole of the schedules would then he submitted to the Licensing Authority, who would be asked to accept them as the recognized rates for the area in question.

National Stabilization.

Other areas would also be notified of these rates through the national associations, so that operators coming into Yorkshire would know the charges which they should receive for the carriage of goods picked up either at a warehouse or a clearing house. Incidentally, the speaker remarked that, in their present forth, some clearing houses were a danger, but, if properly organized, they could be of great benefit to operators.

In the fixing of haulage rates, said Mr. Reeling, regard must be had to the ordinary railway rates, but not to the railway companies' agreed charges. The latter had proved to be most damaging to road transport, but it seemed likely that the railways would review the position in this direction as an outcome of the stabilization of road-haulagerat-and the payment of higher wagea-to lorry, drivers in the road-transport industry.

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Another point which the speaker made with regard to the Milt\ ays was that road operators Should approach the railway companieS with a view to co-ordination in the magpr of rail and road rates.

He hoped that if a scheme on the lines suggested were put into operation in `!..orkshire, the national associations .would immediately ask operators in other areas to set up stabiliiation machinery on similar lines. thus, rates could be stabilized on the Same basis, not only for loads carried on out

ward runs, but also for return loads.

To regularize the position with regard to clearing houses; only those which adhered to agreet rates worild be recognized. Where any doubt arose as. to the appropriate fate for a given journey, the haulier could consult the local office of a 'national association in the district where he happened to be Here, a complete list Of rates. tor all areas would be available for piirposea of

reference. . " Now that tve enjoy protection from the invasion of the industry by new corners added lir. Keeling, " I Onsider that, if we Will only combine on this rates question, we Should,. within . the 'next 12 months, be 'able to obtain "better rates. pay better wages and Operate better fleets."

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Locations: Leeds

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