Contract Hauliers Refuse To Work For Customer
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ROAD hauliers from Sheffield, Doncaster, North Derbyshire. and North Notts. refused on Monday to continue working contract A vehicles for Kingsbury Concrete Co., Ltd., of Kingsbury Road, London, N.W.9, from their depot sited at Ranskill, Notts. Contractors said they were being asked to operate at cut rates—is. Id. per ton for 9to 10-ton vehicles, against what they considered to be the average economical rate of Is. 9d, per ton for these vehicles. Sheffield and South Yorkshire area of the Road Haulage Association was called on to mediate but Mr. P. J. Cheshire, the secretary, said they could not get any official undertaking from the company to give adequate rates for the job. Late on Monday afternoon all the hauliers, mainly one-man businesses, were given a letter from the Kingsbury concern saying they had not made their lorries available for work and so they would be held to be in breach of contract. At one time, more than 30 vehicles were standing idle, reIusing to work outside the Ranskill depot. The letters were handed to the drivers, as their vehicles waited outside the works.
It is understood that a deputation from the hauliers has been to see an official of the Yorkshire Licensing Authority.