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Hauliers Seek National Scheme of Interworking

28th September 1956
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

A DEMAND is being made for more practical assistance by the Road 1-1' Haulage Association in fostering interworking among hauliers. It ' is recommended that a sub-committee should be set up to formulate a scheme.

This is the subject of one of 23 resolutions to be proposed at the annual conference of the Road Haulage Association at Bournemouth

next month. Another calls for a 12-month wage freeze. A third asks for a fully, comprehensive guarantee for at least a year on all new commercial vehicles.

As a whole, the resolutions arc probably the most practical ever to be placed before an R.H.A. conference. They are divided into 10 sections, dealing with policy, rates, finance, labour, licensing, roads, vehicles, lighting, tyres and constitution. Other resolutions, to be discussed during three 4-hour sessions, propose that:—

Purchase tax on commercial vehicles should be abolished.

An easily understood and mined rates schedule graded to cover all classes of traffic and all mileages should be prepared by the._Association.

B.T.C. Borrowing

British Road. Services and British Railways, when requiring capital, should be compelled to seek funds in the open market. The 1930 Act should be amended to obviate -the need for carrying trailer marts when the tractor driver can apply the brakes simultaneously on the tractor and trailer.

The Association should take more practical steps to raise the standard of the industry and should sponsor a scheme whereby all drivers and assistants with over three years' continuous service with their existing employers should have a form of-reference which could be endorsed annuallyby employers. ithw applicant for an A or B licence should be required to send with his application the fee that will be payable if it were granted. The fee would be returnable if the applicant attended the inquiry and the application was refused, but would be forfeited if he failed to attend without giving reasonable notice to the objectors and the Licensing Authority, Five-mile Radius

Neighbouring farmers should be defined as being within a five-mile radius of one another.

Ring roads should be more easily identified.

Vehicle manufacturers should be pressed to standardize all nuts and bolts.

All tippers should have stabilizers and safety locking devices. Chassis should be manufactured to reach the extreme end of the body and incorporate the necessary cross-members.

The weight of tipping gear and loading devices should be excluded from unladen weight for the purpose of the speed limit.

Convex mirrors should be banned.

It should be illegal to have more than four white lights illuminated at any time on the front of a vehicle at night.

Parking of unilluminated vehicles at night should be restricted.

There should he a maximum, as well as a minimum, size for rear lights.

Operators should be able to deal directly with tyre manufacturers over complaints.

The Association's . constitution should be re-examined to reduce the numberof hours spent by members on Association business.

Boundaries of the Association areas should Coincide with those of the traffic areas..


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