Hauliers Would Fight Goods Parking Meters
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WEhave been told that the Minister of Transport is considering the possibility of meters for goods vehicles which are kept waiting in the street. Such a proposal is something that hauliers would strongly oppose ", said Mr. F. Wheeler, chairman of the R.H.A. Metropolitan and South Eastern Area at the Medway Towns sub-area dinner at Gillingham on Wednesday.
Mr. Wheeler said that hauliers were as anxious as Mr. Marples that their vehicles should not stand idle but, for various reasons, the situation was very often outside their control. Hauliers would have to pass on the cost of meter use, putting another burden on trade and industry, and the scheme would be a disastrous precedent which ought to be generally resisted and which seemed to cut across the Buchanan principle that essential transport—on which the community depended--should get every encouragement.