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LEAVE HAULAGE ALONE MR. GOOD

24th April 1964, Page 26
24th April 1964
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Page 26, 24th April 1964 — LEAVE HAULAGE ALONE MR. GOOD
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A HAULIER with a fleet of, say, 50 t A, vehicles engaged in long-distance work will find be has paid something like £50,000 a year and perhaps more in licence duties and fuel tax alone to the Exchequer. If he has made a profit. several more thousand pounds will be due to the Chancellor. The operator will also be paying rates and other taxes. This was said at Bristol on Friday by Mr.

D. 0. Good, national chairman at the annual dinner of the Western area, Road Haulage Association.

With a fleet of 50 vehicles, this haulier needed a staff of perhaps 75, said Mr. Good. "From my own knowledge of what goes on I should say without hesitation that they are contented staff, that they enjoy their work and that few problems arise which cannot be settled on a personal basis."

Very likely Mr. David Webster, M.P. (who also spoke at the dinner) had two or three such hauliers within his own constituency, went on the national chairman.

To Mr. Webster it would be an absurd suggestion that a firm of this kind should be put out of business or have its prospects damaged by restriction for the alleged purpose of improving the country's transport service ", he added, "hut if Mr. Webster belonged to the Labour Party he would have to pretend to believe this.

"The Labour Party still seems likely to take over or cripple the businesses of certain long-distance operators. In the particular case I have quoted this means that a flourishing firm employing 75 people, mostly skilled drivers, will be broken up and thrown on the scrap heap. If the business is located in a constituency with a Labour M.P., that M.P. must apparently make the difficult choice between party dogma and a business with a considerable reputation within his constituency.

"This may or may not be a painful choice. How much more painful is it, however, for the hapless haulier who finds his business snatched from him for no fault of his own—in fact, so far as can be made out, for his virtues rather than his faults? "

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Locations: Bristol

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