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TIPPER OPERATORS GAIN CONTRACT CONCESSION
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ANOTHER STEP towards establishing stable tipper rates in the North West was taken in Manchester this week. J. Handford and Son Ltd., builder's merchant, Manchester, agreed to include a maximum mileage figure in relation to minimum annual payments in Contract A licences working out of Buxton Quarries.
Mr. H. Lomas, director of Handford, agreed to amend five contracts relating to licences being applied for by H. Hayes, Ashton-under-Lyne, B. Gillespie, and W. A. Taylor of Manchester, R. Sigley, Woodley and W. Deacon, of Collyhurst, to guarantee minimum annual earnings of £3,500 related to a maximum mileage of 36,000 a year with a weekly tonnage of 150.
This was agreed after close crossexamination by Mr. J. A. Backhouse, who was appearing for 16 objectors, on the question of rates paid by Handford.
One applicant, Mr. Hayes, said he had been operating under short-term licence and over the past two weeks he had been averaging 37 tons a day, five and a half days a week, which represented weekly earnings of £80. Mr. Hayes agreed that his net receipt for delivery to Eccles was 9s a ton and Mr. Backhouse submitted that estimated on the costs given by the applicant he would require a rate of 9s 10d to operate profitably.
Mr. Hayes said he had purchased a new vehicle and he hoped it would be trouble free. He intended to do his own maintenance, and was therefore confident that he could operate economically.
Mr. Lomas told North Western LA Mr. C. R. Hodgson that in 1964 his firm had sold 94,000 tons of aggregate and the figure for the year ended March, 1967, represented an 85 per cent increase. He maintained that he required a corresponding increase in vehicles. There were 23/24 vehicles on contract at the moment and about a dozen Blicensed vehicles were used on a casual basis.
Mr. Lomas said its rates were based on the blue book compiled by a committee of builders' merchants and North Western tipper operators and published in February, 1966. He agreed with Mr. Backhouse, however, that some of the firm's rates were lower than these and did not include a 6d a ton increase which other operators had obtained in January this year.
Mr. Lomas said that there was a clause in its haulage contracts which allowed for an adjustment of rates when the firm was forced to cut its charges to obtain very competitive local authority business. Mr. Backhouse submitted that such adjustments would make haulage rates uneconomical.