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Permit Question in the House

24th November 1950
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Page 38, 24th November 1950 — Permit Question in the House
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

OF 17.000 applications for permits, 12,000 were granted, but only 4,000 were in the terms sought. The number of permits, however, did not matter so much as the number of vehicles covered. The Road Haulage Association was arranging to have a question asked in the House of Commons as to this total, and the figure would undoubtedly shock everyone.

Mr. B. Winterbottom, national vicechairman of the R.H.A., made this statement in Hull last week.

The full backing of the R.H.A. was being given to the Transport Act (Amendment) Bill, and it should be borne in mind that during the war the Government called haulage over 60 miles long-distance work. The Bill should bring to the light of day antiBritish legislation against hauliers of this country, and should have the sup 84 port of chambers of commerce which were anxious to have the services of free hauliers available to industry.

The Transport Act, said Mr. Winterbottom, was framed in such a way that its administration could put everyone in the industry out of business. The revocation of permits by the Road Haulage Executive was an indication that it now felt it must use all the powers which the Act gave it to bolster itself up.

Some 40,000 vehicles were in the hands of The British Transport Commission. The B.T.C. had little to fear from competition with free enterprise. Permit revocations aggravated the licensing position, because if an operator lost long-distance work and stayed in business the Executives retained the right to object to the renewal of his licence on the ground that his vehicles were redundant.


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