Rate-cutting Comes Before, the Central Conference
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rOMPLA1NTS of a serious recurrence 01 rate-cutting in road haulage will be brought forward, it is. understood, when a meeting or members of theRoad and Rail Central Conference and its regional committees is held in.Qctober. This meeting, previously mentioned in our columns, has been convened fr the discussion of rates' stabilization in the light of the Triad rates schedule put forward, as .a suggested national basis, by the .Yorkshire Road and Rail Regional Cominittee, The Central Conference circulaierl copies of the scheduleto all the other regional committees for their .cOnsideration,' and views upon it will he exchanged at. next month's national .meeting. Rate-cutting will be cited at the meeting, it is gathered, as a -factor urgently calling for action on road rates stabilizAtion. In quarters where -complaints
of cuttirig were vOiced to a (formspondent of this journal, it Was said to be "getting pretty general " outside the Government .Scheme.. _A ease was quoted in which an Operator was said.' • • to have offered to -carry certain traffic at a rate nearly 50 per cent.. lower than that laid down for such traffic in iii agreed schedule for .the particu'a area concerned, • . •
A circumstance, stated to give rise_ to rate-cutting at the present 'time is the bid for other work by operators' hitherto employed on Government jobs which have now been completed, • Such '. as .haulage in connection_ With the con-' struction Of aerodromes, OpZiratots who, were granted .Aflicence permits they -undertook aerodronie work .fire said to be coming into , the market ..for general traffic, and. it is argued, :that . they should not be allowed to do so: ••...