Call for Open Competition
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r UST ahead of the Government's White .1 Paper ontransport, came a report rum the Association of British Chambers if Commerce called "Transport for the 7uture." The Association recommended that lritish Road Services should be permitted o,develop their haulage business in openompetition with other hauliers. an More flexibility in granting A d B icences was also desirable, they said, iarticularly in avoiding insistence on ocational qualifications. These operators vere probably subject to too much conrol under the licensing system and a Objections, and the need to give :vidence, should be reduced to a mininum. " More freedom will probably :ntail more risk, but this is the life-blood If commerce." The freedom of the transport user to )perate his own C-licensed vehicles was .till strongly advocated, but he was again costs and the irged to study comparative
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