York Hauliers Plan Continental Pallet Exchange Service
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TEE possibility of the interchange of loading pallets between Britain and the Continent on an extensive scale is envisaged as a result of a project initiated by members of the Road Haulage Association, York Sub-Area.
Mr. J. H. Tait, of .1. H. Tait Transport, Ltd.. York, told The Commercial Motor that 12 operators from the sub-area had joined together to form Trans-European Pallet Services (Great Britain), Ltd., which had now been established with offices at Piccadilly Chambers, York.
Two Tippers Added After Three-day Hearing
AFTER a three-day resumed hearing at Stockton last week, the Northern Licensing Authority, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, granted an addition of two eight-wheeled tippers to the A licensed fleet of R. Durham and Sons, Ltd., Haverton Hill. Co. Durham. They had applied to add four eight-wheeled tippers, of an unladen weight not exceeding 81 tons each, to their fleet. The case was first heard on February 16 (The Commercial Motor, February 27) and was adjourned for evidence from an Imperial Chemical Industries witness.
The application was twofold. Two vehicles were required to carry urea, previously in bagged form, in bulk from Teesside to the Midlands for I.C.I. The second part of the application was for two further vehicles to cope with an increase in traffic of ilmenite and sulphur.
Evidence from Durham's and objections from British Road Services, were heard previopsly and the Stockton hearing was devoted solely to the evidence of four independent objectors. They contended that there was an excess of tipping vehicles in the area and that Durham's should take off licence an equivalent number of platform vehicles.
Mr. J. Booth, representing all the objectors, said that B.R.S. had been carrying urea for I.C.I. in bagged form and were prepared to convert two tipping vehicles to use in lieu of flats for their share in the traffic. Mr. Booth said that the other objectors would not be worried if Durham's Were prepared to substitute the eight-wheelers for the appropriate tonnage in either four-wheelers or sixwheelers.
Mr. Campbell Wardlaw for Durham's said that there was a need for the conveyance of this traffic in bulk, and nobody disputed that fact. The objection of B.R.S. was a nebulous one.
LEYLAND ON TELEVISION
BELIEVED to be the first heavy-duty vehicle manufacturers to use television as an advertising medium, Leyland Motors, Ltd., have booked time on Independent Television to support a revised range of oil-engined vehicles.
The advertisement will be shown in one-minute films on AssociatedRediffusion at 8.50 p.m.; Granada, between 9.30 and 10 p.m., and Southern Television at 9.10 p.m. on June 1.
114 Negotiations have been proceeding with the Dutch organization, the Royal Netherlands Association of Transport Enterprises, and it is understood that representatives of the English body are at present in Holland for a conference on the subject. Approaches have also been made to the pool of German operators who have agreed in principle to a system of pallet exchange. The sponsors of the scheme are now investigating the position in relation to Sweden and Finland.
The primary concern of the originators of the project is to facilitate freight working through the Humber ports, to Rotterdam, Hamburg, Bremen and other Continental ports. With the object of assisting shippers it is hoped that full vehicle pallets will be extensively employed. The dimensions under consideration are the 25 ft. by 7 ft. (or 12ton) pallet, the 20 ft. by 7 ft. and the 18 ft. by 7 ft., pjus certain smaller Continental sizes.
The operators aim to quote door-todoor rates from British factories to the Continental customers. Storage for the pallets is to be provided in York where a banking and bulking arrangement will also facilitate the handling of smaller consignments.
20-TONNERS ON I.o.W. FERRY
VEHICLES weighing up to 20 tons may be carried on the M.V. Carisbrooke Castle," a drive-on ferry boat which the Red Funnel Line are now running between Southampton and Cowes, Isle of Wight. Sailings will be arranged so that goods vehicles may be taken from the mainland to deliver on the island and return on the same day.
Mr. Hanlon Disappointed by Lack of Objections
GRANTING a new limited B licence at Newcastle, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, Northern Licensing Authority, said he was rather surprised that so wide an application had not produced more repercussions. He had heard many times in recent months that hauliers had been experiencing difficulties in getting loads, but on this occasion there was only one objection, from the British Transport Commission. It was the haulage industry that wanted protection in these matters and they could not sit back and let the B.T.C. carry the burden.
The licence was granted to G. T. Contal and Sons, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, who applied to have one of their four vehicles at present on C licznce placed on a B, to enable them to carry goods from the south of England for Newcastle market merchants, Yeoward Bros., Ltd.
Mr. T. H. Campbell-Wardlaw said that Contals ran .large vehicles regularly to London to pick up their own goods at Covent Garden and other places, for their branches in Newcastle. They wanted to use the vehicle for their own goods and to carry part loads for Yeoward Bros., particularly fruit from Kent during the season.
Mr. George Fisher, branch manager of Yeoward's, said much of his firm's fruit came from the south of England. They did not want Contals to carry goods from Covent Garden as they were satisfied with the licensed hauliers. Their only interest was in fruit from Kent, because they had experienced difficulty in having part loads conveyed. The railways, he said, were too slow to deliver by goods, and passenger transit was too expensive.
He told Mr. J. L. R. Croft, appearing for the objectors, that he had not used British Road Services and he did not know they had a trunk service for fruit consignments.