Higher Speed for Cattle Trucks ?
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FOLLOWING representations to the Ministry of Transport, requesting that the speed limit for cattle trucks be raised to 30 m.p.h., it was officially stated that the matter was under consideration and that an announcement would shortly be made.
This information was given in the annual report of the chairman of the livestock carriers' group of the Road Haulage Association.
Total agreement on conditions of carriage had, he said, been reached with the National Farmers' Union, and difficulties that might emerge from operation under the standard conditions (RH/LS/43) would be dealt with jointly by the R.H.A. and the N.F.U.
The N.F.U. was emphatic that it wished hauliers would make it known that they were carrying under RH /LS/43 by displaying the R.H.A. badge on their vehicles and notepaper. This also enabled a customer to differentiate between a private and a State concern.
After discussion between the Ministry of Agriculture and an R.H.A. sub-committee, the final draft of the Transit of Horses Order has been accepted by the Association (see page 189).
The percentage of livestock carriers now members of the R.H.A. is at its highest.
HALF-DECKERS ON NEW SERVICE WHEN Highland Transport, Ltd., YV applied to the Scottish Licensing Authority last week for permission to ran a direct service from Glasgow to Southampton, via Covent ry and Birmingham, it was stated that 49-seater half-deck vehicles would be used.
On behalf of the company. Mr. J. Kirkland said that a demand for the service had arisen because of the high cost of rail travel, especially to towns off the main lines and through which the service would pass.
Objections were lodged by the Railway Executive and the Western S.M.T. Co., Ltd. The decision is to be announced.
ARBITRATION TRIBUNAL SITS Wednesday, the Transport Arbitration Tribunal heard an interlocutory application in the...case of Messrs. Holland Bros. against the Road Haulage Executive, and an ex parte application in the case of Liss Transport, Ltd., against the R.H.E. for the confirmation of an agreement as to compensation.
The hearings will be reported in next week's issue.
140 FINES ON COACH OWNERS VINES amounting to £40, with 1 £10 10s. costs, were imposed recently at Newcastle-on-Tyne on Messrs. Taylor Bros„ North Shields coach proprietors, for alleged contravention of the Road Traffic Act. Defendants pleaded not guilty to running a coach as an express carriage without a road service licence, permitting a driver to drive for more than 11 consecutive hours and without eight consecutive hours' rest.
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