What the Associations Are Doing
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• EXPERIMENTS IN THE BACON INDUSTRY.
Associated Road Operators has been approached by the Bacon Development Board, of Thames House, Milbank, which wished to obtain the names of haulage concerns likely to be able to transport pigs from farms to bacon factories, over distances up to 150 miles. This is in connection with experiments which are being carried out in the Eastern, South-Eastern, Yorks and Western traffic areas. Extended experiments, in the future, may cover many other parts of the country . and A.R.O. area secretaries are collecting the necessary information.
More C.M.U.A. Sub-areas.
' We understand from the London and HomeCounties Division of the C.M.U.A. that, iri addition to the existing sub-areas of Brighton, Grays and Bournemouth, sub-areas are to be instituted in Southampton, Portsmouth, Maidstone, Canterbury, Reading and Southend.
Speaking of the London and Home Counties Division generally, membership is increasing. A full programme of open meetings, to be held throughout the autUrnu, is being drawn up and there will be concentration on the C licensees' difficulties.
Deletion of Redundant Tours.
Two meetings of great interest to coach operators took place at Dudley recently, following the proposal of the WeSt Midland Traffic Commissioners to delete from licences tours which had not been operated for five years. The first of the meetings, which. were organized by the Road Passenger and Hauliers Association, took place on August 12, under the chairmanship of Mr. R. H. Hopton, chairman of the Association.
Mr. A. L. Stallworthy, deputy clerk to the Area Commissioners, allayed the fears of some members that once they had given up certain tours on their licences, they might not be able to renew them. He pointed out that the Commissioners could give a special dispensation to operate a tour which had been deleted, in the event of there being a public need for it.
Operators objected to the proposal, on the grounds that it made it extremely difficult for them to decide what tours to run, as it was not easy to estimate what the public would require. also on the grounds that the amount of clerical work needed, on the part of the operator, would be greatly increased.
As a result of the discussion at this meeting, another was held at Dudley last Friday. Mr. Hopton, who again took the chair, said that he was in favour of the proposal, because it would prevent unnecessary objections by operators who desired to block the applications of business rivals. Another aspect was that some operators wished to have as many destinations on a licence as possible, in the event of their wishing to transfer it.
Mr. D. Skelding said that what the West Midland Commissioners were proposing to do, had been carried out for many years in the Metropolitan Area.
It was decided that members should prepare, individually, a schedule of tours which had been on their licences for five years, and which had not been operated throughout that period, and were redundant in their opinion. The period was to include the season 1938.
Big Demand for a Legal Guide.
The demand for the " Legal Guide for Commercial Motor Drivers," written by Mr. F. G. Bristow, and published by the Commercial Motor Users • Association, 80, Pall Mall, London, S.W.1, at a price of 4d. each, post included, has been such that a further reprint has been called for.
The main provisions of the Traffic Acts, the lighting regulations, the Construction and Use Regulations, and the Removal of Vehicles -Regulations, have been included in the guide, in so far as they affect drivers, and it is claimed to be the most up-to-date document published dealing with the subject.
C.M.U.A. AND ANIMAL-TRANSIT LAWS.
Under the provisions of the Transit of Animals (Amendment) Order of 1931, an obligation is placed on the owner or person in charge of a motor vehicle, which is used for the conveyance of animals, to cleanse and disinfect it after carrying animals and before loading further animals into it.
Members of the C.M.U.A. are experiencing considerable difficulty, in some parts of the country, in view of the fact that there are many markets where adequate cleansing facilities are not provided, with the result that it is found well nigh impossible, without travelling considerable distances, to conform to the provisions of the Order.
The C.M.U.A. has made representations to the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, urging him to bring pressure upon all market authorities to provide adequate cleansing facilities, it being submitted that the cost of making provision for such facilities would soon be recovered by the making of charges to cover the costs.
Proposed Inverness Road-restriction.
Intimation has been received by the Scottish Commercial Motor Association, from the Ministry of Transport, of an application by Inverness County Council for an Order restricting the traffic on the following roads to vehicles not exceeding four tons:— The road leading from Nethy Bridge to 13roomhill and carried by the 13roomhill Bridge over the River Spey in the Badenoch district; the road leading from Nethy Bridge to Boat of Garten and carried by the Boat of Garten Bridge over the River Spey in the Badenoch district; the road leading from Kincraig to Fashiebridge and carried by the Kincraig Bridge over the Spey in the Badenoch district.
Objections to the proposed Order are to be lodged with the Ministry of Transport on or before August SO, copies of such objections to be forwarded to the County Clerk, County Buildings, Inverness.