More Goodwill Would Enhance Services
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MORE goodwill throughout the transport industry would enhance the efficiency of hauliers' services, and provide extended scope for interworking. This was stated by Mr. R. N. Ingram. national chairman, Road Haulage Association, at the annual dinner-dance of the Coventry. Rugby and North Warwickshire Sub-area, last week.
Future targets of the administrators should include the acceleration of road improvements and building projects, and an investigation into certain features of the, licensing system, he said. Every opportunity should be taken by leading operators to maintain contact with M.P.s who had a knowledgable interest in transport.
Referring to the recent tax battles won by the Association, Mr. Ingram said that preparatory work had occupied several years.
FINES FOR LEARNER-DRIVER
I-1 A LEARNER-DRIVER, who was said
to have been ordered by his employer's wife to drive a lorry unaccompanied and was involved in an accident with a van, was fined a total of £27, with £2 2s. costs, on six charges at Sedgley last week. He and his employer, who was also charged, were disqualified from driving for six months.
The driver, Joseph William Groom, Turton Road, Princes End, Tipton, was employed at the time by Samuel Thomas Cartwright, Ivy Road, Summerhill, Tipton, coal merchant and haulier. Cartwright was fined £29 and £5 5s. costs on seven charges.
It was stated that Cartwright's wife, learning that a lorry had broken down, sent Groom to pick up the load with another lorry. Groom, who had held five provisional driving licences, gave a false name and address at the time.
NEW DUNDEE DEPOT
PAA NEW headquarters and depot of Dundee Express Deliveries, Ltd., which occupies a one-acre site at Bellfield Street, Dundee, was opened last week. It can accommodate 35 vehicles, has an up-to-date workshop, new office suite and storage and warehousing facilities.
The depot is teleprinter-linked with depots in London, Manchester, Liverpool, Aberdeen, Glasgow and some large customers. The concern are part of the Charles Alexander group, whose activities were described in The Commercial Motor dated November 13.
ANTI-ROLL REAR SPRINGS
HIGH-RATE rear springs are offered for use on Leyland Super Comet 9-ton goods chassis to reduce roll tendencies when high bodywork is fitted. The springs are claimed to be suitable for pantechnicons, cattle floats and similarly bodied vehicles. They do not increase the carrying capacity of the chassis as they are intended solely to correct sway.