Deliveries Pooling May Ease Driver Shortage
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A SCHEME for the pooling of whole
salers' deliveries to secure transport economies will, in due course, follow the plan for the pooling of retail deliveries, stated Mr. B. Peel, District Transport Officer for Leeds and Bradford, at a Leeds traders' meeting held some days ago.
In a statement last week on the application of the retail-deliveries pooling scheme in the North-eastern Region, Major F. S. Eastwood, Regional Transport Commissioner, said there are at present something like 9,000 commercial vehicles not exceeding 1-ton unladen weight in use in the region, and a big proportion is engaged on retail deliveries. "We want to eliminate at least 25 per cent, of those on retail deliveries-33 per cent. is really our aim by the time concentration is complete."
Apart from the saving of petrol and tyres, said the Commissioner, the scheme would be advantageous in that it would release many drivers for passenger and war-time transport services, and provide a pool of surplus vehicles from which those fleets to be still employed on retail deliveries could draw for replacements, which might otherwise be unobtainable.