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No Compulsory Flaps Liner Train Conditions Transport Training T HE Minister

25th June 1965, Page 38
25th June 1965
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Page 38, 25th June 1965 — No Compulsory Flaps Liner Train Conditions Transport Training T HE Minister
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of Transport this week refused to make the use of mudflaps on lorries compulsory. The suggestion had been made in the Commons by Mr. James Dance (Tory, Bromsgrove), who said that the use of these flaps would ensure that rear lights were not obscured by mud.

Mr. Fraser told him that research into the use of existing types of mudflaps on lorries did not suggest their use would prevent rear lights being obscured by mud. He did not therefore propose to make their use compulsory at present. but was seeking the co-operation of the motor industry in improving the mudguards of commercial vehicles.

Spares Shortage?

WHEN the Minister was questioned about shortages of lorry parts in South Wales he told his questioner—Mr. Arthur Pearson (Labour, Pontypridd)— that he had received no representations from South Wales hauliers about the shortage of spares. But he had been informed that their maintenance advisory committee for goods vehicles had been pursuing the matter with manufacturers.

SPOT CHECKS LAST year spot checks on vehicles 1-4 resulted in 51,627 prohibition notices, 11,178 of them immediate—Mr. Fraser in the Commons. ONLY if undertakings are given that there will be no redundancies, no cuts in wages or worsening of conditions will the Scottish Commercial Motormen's Union co-operate in BR liner-train plans. Stating this, the secretary, Mr. Alex Kitson, added that bulk traffic now taking 33 hours in two stages between Aberdeen and London, for example, would travel in 13 to 14 hours and the long-distance driver would become, in effect, a shunter.

But he added: "1 don't really see how the NUR can object to allowing (SCMU) members to use the liner depots, as it is not really their work. They have far greater grounds for objecting to the mushroom growth of C licences . . .".

Milk Collection: South Eastern dairy farmers are attempting to compel the Minister of Agriculture to take action over what they consider to he an unjustifiable transport charge by the MMB for collection from farms—at present d. a gallon. This is lower than in some areas, but the whole question is a matter of agreeing differentials, and a Board spokesman said this week that, whatever the outcome, it would not affect rates paid to hauliers for milk collection on the MMB's behalf.

Milk Deliveries: No early change in retail milk deliveries is expected if Express Dairy Co. Ltd. gets permission to sell its new longlife milk under the Milk (Special Designation) Regulations. First to get deliveries of the new milk may be bulk users such as hotels and hospitals, and a new bulk contamer--possibly of 5 gal, capacity—is under development.


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