G.P.O. Cannot Find Enough Vehicles
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AS a result of trimming rates in the past, the General Post Office in London is this year finding difficulty in finding a sufficient number of Aand B-licensed vehicles to cope with the Christmas mails.
The Metropolitan and South Eastern Area of the Road Haulage Association have warned members that, if sufficient vehicles are not forthcoming, some hundreds of vehicles may have to be authorized under C licence for the work. The G.P.O. have, however, given an undertaking not to take such a measure before December 14.
Area officials of the R.H.A. have advised the Metropolitan Licensing Authority of the practice of rate-trimming, and they have been assured by the G.P.O. that similar conditions will not apply this year.
HEAVY LOADS WILL NOT BE CARRIED
nBJECTIONS to an application by
Barchards Transport, Ltd., to add two articulated units to an A licence were withdrawn at Bridlington, last week, whenthe applicants promised not to enter the low-loader field. They also agreed to a reduction in semi-trailer weight.
They had applied for a tractor of 5 tons 3 cwt., with a 74--ton semi-trailer. Mr. J, H. A. Randolph, Yorkshire Deputy Licensing Authority, was told that the intention had been to use it for low-loader work. Mr. David Karmel, Q.C., for Barchards, said that as a result of agreement to reduce the weight of the semi-trailer to 5 tons, and not to engage in low-loader work, B.R.S. (Pickfords), Ltd., and Brooksbank and Elliott (Haulage), Ltd., had withdrawn their objections.
• A second application was for a 3-ton tractor and a 2i-ton semi-trailer, to be acquired, which also would not be used as a low-loader.
MORE EXPERIENCE WANTED
" I SHALL want a lot more experience of I conditions on M1 before coming to any decision whether or not to impose a maximum speed limit on motorways." This was stated by the Minister of Transport last week in a written answer to Mr. G. R. Chetwynd (Lab., Stockton-on-Tees).
The Minister added, in a reply to Mr. J. Hall (Cons., Wycombe), that the Ministry of Transport and the Road Research Laboratory were considering delineating the edges of the motorway with red cats' eyes. A two-mile length of antidazzle fencing was to be put up experimentally on Ml.
NEW SEVERN BRIDGE
ANEW bridge over the Severn at The Haw, Glos, is under construction. It will carry the B4213 Cheltenham-Ledbury road over the river at a point just downstream from the site of the old Telford bridge.
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