"Mental Barrier" to Quick Turnround
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"SOME traders, but by no means all of them, put up a kind of mental barrier at the receiving end and the dispatch point ac. their premises. Within their own departments they may do everything possible to speed up production and increase -productivity. It does not occur to them that much of their good work goes for nothing if vehicles that call at their premises are kept waiting for hours at a time." This was one of the principal themes of a speech by Mr. J. B. Mitchell, R.H.A. national chairman, at the annual dinner of the Association's South Yorkshire area in Sheffield on Wednesday.
Delays to vehicles at ports and customers' premises were perhaps a serious source of leakage from the national economy, he said. The R.B.A. was looking forward to trade and industry's support in the recently-launched "Turn That Lorry Round" campaign.
ANOTHER " LORRY DRIVER" DATE
THE Leicester eliminating round of the Lorry Driver of the Year competition will be held on July 22.