BRSL joins South Western co-op unit
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• The South-western division of British Road Services Ltd has become a shareholder and a member of South Western Traffic Ltd, the co-operative unit formed in 1958 by 25 hauliers in Devon and Cornwall. Mr R. W. Irons, the BRS divisional manager, will attend board meetings of the company which now has offices in Exeter. Plymouth and Bodmin.
The chairman of the company is Mr D. 0. Good of Pioneer Haulage Ltd, Beer, a former chairman of the Road Haulage Association who was much concerned at the time in establishing joint machinery to link the RHA with British Railways and BRS.
The main function of the company is to handle for the members surplus traffic which in the first instance is offered to RHA members in the Devon and Cornwall area and subsequently to any other operators seeking business. The company is free to obtain business on its own account. In the year ending March 31 last, nearly 40 per cent of all the traffic handled came from members and half the traffic handed out was carried by shareholders.
There are now 34 shareholders and turnover has shown a consistent increase. Mr D. J. Henry is the general manager.