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Mr. Hanlon Proposes New Committee
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T" establishment of a vehicle maintenance committee in Cumberland and Westmorland, an idea promoted by Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, Northern Licensing Authority, was discussed, last week, at the annual dinner of Cumberland and Westmorland livestock haulier members of the Road Haulage Association.
Announcing the proposal, Mr. R. Clifford, the Northern Area chairman, said a similar committee had been formed in Newcastle, where it was backed by various road organizations, and it was proposed to form another in Carlisle, with representatives from several areas in the north west.
Mr. Clifford said that in making his suggestion, Mr. Hanlon was not getting at any particular section, and certainly not the livestock hauliers, whose vehicles were recognized as being well maintained.
Mr. F. G. Garwood, national chairman of the Road Haulage Association's Livestock Functional Group, said it was satisfactory that action was being taken against operators whose licences were not in order, and also that the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals were paying less attention to three-deck transporters and concentrating on Irish horses.
R.H.A. SPOKESMAN HITS OUT AT GAFTSKELL WHAT does the haulage industry have VI' to do before Mr. Hugh Gaitskell and the Labour Party will be satisfied and drop their threats of nationalization? This question was asked by Mr. A. F. Drain, chairman of the Metropolitan and South Eastern Area of the Road Haulage Association, speaking at the Brighton sub-area's annual dinner last week.
Mr. Drain said: "He (Mr. Gaitskell) speaks of concrete, specific and carefully designed proposals, so perhaps at long last we are even to be given some reasons why it seems so necessary to the party— or at least to Mr. Gaitskell—that our industry should be abolished.
"To anybody who knows anything about road haulage, the idea is fantastic. The one and only test is, Or ought to be, whether the road haulage industry does what the customer requires of it, and whether this task could be carried out better in any other way."
FARMERS' OPERATION QUERIED
WHY are so many farmers able to operate as hauliers without having to get a proper haulagelicence like everybody else? This was the question put to members of the Eastern Area of the Road Haulage Association, by Mr. R. B. Brittain, their chairman, at the Bury St. Edmunds sub-area dinner.
Referring to this situation as "particularly bizarre," Mr. Brittain went on: "Is it because some farmers are off the beaten track where no transport services are available? If so, they should have no difficulty in proving their case for a haulage licence, just as the rest of us have to do."