CHARTER FOR ROAD-TRANSPORT OPERATORS
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T"Joint Executive Committee of the West Midland Area of A.R.O. and C.M.U.A. has decided that the time is opportune to press the Government for a clear-cut declaration, or, in other words, a charter by legislation, setting forth-the rights and position at the end of the war of operators who held A and B licences at the beginning of the war. It asks that all holders of such licences shall have the immediate assurance of the Government that, at the end of hostilities, they will be entitled to operate a tonnage equal to that which they had on licence on September 3, 1939, subject to proper observance of wages, conditions of service, etc.
Furthermore, operators shall be entitled to acquire additional vehicles necessary to continue their business and natural development without having to endure the delays and opposition in traffic courts. -In order to prevent new vehicles being pat on the road, with the resultant rate-cutting, it is stressed that a rates structure should be introduced and strictly enforced, but that it must still be necessary for applications from newcomers to the industry since September, 1939, to pass through the traffic courts in the usual way.