Deliberations of Road and Rail Central Conference
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THEjoint chairmen of the Road and Rail Central .Conference have drawn up a statement concerning a meeting held by it on May 20 at the M.O.W.T. At this a number of rates agreements recommended by Regional Committees was approved. Amongst other business, it was reported that the Yorkshire Schedule of road rates, together with an explanatory memorandum and instructions, had been circulated to all Regional Committees, some of which had commenced consideration of the documents. It was reported by the road members that their representatives had been sitting on an S.J.C. sub-committee charged with the production of a standard set of Conditions of Carriage for immediate application to traffics outside Government control.
No difficulty was anticipated in relating these to the Conditions already drafted by the Conference for post-war application.
After a review of work performed and consideration of the future, it was agreed to record that the general and ultimate objectives of the Conference could well be summed up in the words of the Transport Advisory Council report. These were:—(1) To avoid unnecessary overlapping 'of services and uneconomic competition, it is desirable to establish as great a degree of co-ordination as possible amongst the various forms of transport carrying goods, to ensure that each form be used to the greatest national advantage. (2)* The best line of approach to achieve co-ordination is to aim at ,securing for traders adequate alternative facilities, care being taken that the resultant competition is on fair terms. (3) There should be an unfettered right on the part of the trader to select the form of transport which he approves and thinks most convenient and economic for his purpose.