B.R.S. Ending Hire • Contracts
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THIS year and next year, British Road Services are to end all vehicle hire contracts which can be terminated during that period. Where no period of notice is laid down, at least three months' warning will be given.
This action is being taken to solve the problem of vehicles on hire which have to be sold under the provisions of the Transport Act, 1953. The arrangement to end present contracts has been decided with the concurrence of the Minister of Transport, and in consultation. with the Road Haulage Disposal Board and the Road Haulage Association.
"The termination of these contracts," the British Transport Commission said on Tuesday, "will give both the Commission (through their wholly owned road haulage companies) and independent operators an opportunity of seeking the patronage of the customers concerned with a view to their entering into new contracts, and it will also give the customers an opportunity of seeking new contracts if they are dissatisfied with the arrangements hitherto in force."
The ending of B.R.S. hire contracts was exclusively forecast in The Commercial Motor on January 28.