Railways to Join in Road Rates Talks-?
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'VINT an invitation will be extended to the railways to co-operate with the road-transport industry in the efforts which have been initiated in Yorkshire to set up rates-stabilization machinery was indicated at a meeting of the transport section of Bradford Chamber of Trade on Monday.
Mr. Harry Clark, secretary of the employers' panel of the Yorkshire Conciliation Board, under the auspices of which stabilization is being carried on, said it was intended to advance the work in steps. The first was to set up Yorkshire rates machinery ; the second was to co-operate with operators in the Northern and North-Western Areas. through the standing joint committee of these two areas and the Yorkshire Traffic Area ; the third was to extend the movement to other traffic areas; and the fourth was to set up national machinery.
Before this fourth step was taken, however, it was proposed to invite the co-operation of the railways.
Detailing the steps which are being taken by the Yorkshire employers' panel in connection with stabilization, Mr. Clark stated that for the purpose • of collecting data a traffic census was being taken among representative Yorkshire hauliers. Forms had been distributed, upon which the operators were asked to indicate such particulars as routes covered, rates charged, mileage, and size of vehicle.
By this means, details of over 1,000 rates had been collected, and from these it would be possible to arrive at an average of charges, which could be checked with the rates schedules already formulated. More than 3,000 kinds of article figure in the rates schedules, but it was felt that, despite difficulties, the stabilization problem could be satisfactorily mastered in due Course.