More Nights at Manchester: Liverpool Interest
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MIGHT deliveries to Manchester docks -LI have been stepped up from two to three a week—Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday —after a successful beginning to the pilot scheme in which hauliers in the Potteries are co-operating with the shipping organizations. A six months' run is envisaged before a permanent system can be settled upon to relieve pressure at the docks.
Other ideas under consideration are the provision of a trailer dumping park; advance notification of loads for export; and the utilization of dock facilities beyond the basic 40-hour week by hauliers drawing up a plan to accept the cost of overtime and avoid a lorry being turned away partloaded or even empty. This idea has been mooted for some time and must now be examined, says the RHA area secretary, Mr. W. Fa z north.
Meanwhile, preliminary moves are being
made to institute night deliveries at Liverpool. One shipping company has already indicated its interest in going ahead on one night a week and RHA area chairman, Mr. A, V. Walker, is honing to arrange a meeting next week to consider how this can be taken up. They hope for the co-operation of BRS Tunstall, one of the Potteries hauliers who, concerned with the Manchester operation, are also awaiting the date for a meeting with the Liverpool authorities.
Three runs a night can be made from the Stoke area to Manchester where a BRS Trafford Park shunter takes over. Beresford Transport Ltd., BRS Tunstall and J. L. Cooper Ltd. send about 80 ton a night in from seven to nine trailers that are handled by one gang. The gang is paid by Manchester Liners Ltd. who accept the cost as a reasonable investment. Planned deliveries are the key to the success of the scheme.